View Full Version : Tracking Live Case - whose babies are we (large picc)
British Red
03-07-2010, 20:02
So...who are today's new borns??
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4757757513_1d895c4f62_b.jpg
Red
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 21:51
is that a wee robin?
or maybe something along the lines of a starling or blackbird?
blue tit?
Cyclingrelf
03-07-2010, 21:58
Aw - love the mohigans! I'm going to guess Great tits.
They look like Gary glitter to me.:o
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 22:05
I'm going with Great tits too.
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 22:07
why? could it not be a blue tit or a coal tit? what am i not seeing that everyone else can?
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 22:08
why? could it not be a blue tit or a coal tit? what am i not seeing that everyone else can?
Well, personally, I'm also looking at nesting material, construction and location.
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 22:09
location seems to be a bird box? is that more usual for great tits?
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 22:16
location seems to be a bird box? is that more usual for great tits?
Tits do like boxes. Also look at the beak construction and you can see what shape it will turn into once the gape starts disappearing, which will then show you what they eat as adults. The nest construction is important, blackbirds don't tend to use green stuff and moss, just brown grasses and thin twigs, starlings make a big mess and not really a proper construction, thrush would be mud lined, robin lined with fine grasses and hairs, same with blue tits. You can't be 100% with a quick shot like that unless you are a bird nerd, but you can narrow it down. The Hair Bear Bunch affros also make me think Great tit, although robins have them too.
Still, birds are not my forte, so I could be well wrong :lmao:
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 22:40
takes some experience to be able to tell then?
British Red
03-07-2010, 22:42
Well, I can positively rule out great tits. Its not a bird box by the way, but shoved into the roof line of the log store by the back door of the cottage
Red
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 22:53
Well, I can positively rule out great tits. Its not a bird box by the way, but shoved into the roof line of the log store by the back door of the cottage
Red
See, there you go Scorps. Now I'm stumped :lmao: Only other fuzzy bonces I know are robins.
bivibabe
03-07-2010, 23:01
Is it Swallow?
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 23:02
muhahahahahaaa! still i didint come close either.
chaffinch, greenfinch, wren?.... african grey?
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 23:03
its not a mud nest so i dont think it would be swallow...
dove? wood pigeon?
British Red
03-07-2010, 23:13
They are robins - you got it on the first hit scorpio :)
I didn't call it "won" cos it was in a long list ;) Not often you can take a picture like that stood inside your own back door is it?
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 23:16
its not a mud nest so i dont think it would be swallow...
dove? wood pigeon?
It's a small bird. Pigeons are damned ugly, you can't mistake them...
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pidgie/PIDGIES_PAGES/chicks7.jpg
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 23:17
They are robins - you got it on the first hit scorpio :)
I didn't call it "won" cos it was in a long list ;) Not often you can take a picture like that stood inside your own back door is it?
Nice one Scorps, although you should be penalized for African grey ;)
You're lucky Red, closest I have to wild birds in my place is this daft budgie I found in the woods last year..
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/darkcrown_1969/DSC05705.jpg
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 23:34
wooop! thought it looked like a nest my nan had in the garage!
google: "afro headed baby bird" and you will see why i had to guess african grey! :D
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 23:37
wooop! thought it looked like a nest my nan had in the garage!
google: "afro headed baby bird" and you will see why i had to guess african grey! :D
You got African grey from this...
http://lolpetclothes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/frobird.jpg
_scorpio_
03-07-2010, 23:38
LOL!
you caught that budgie in a forest? couldnt have been too easy!
JonathanD
03-07-2010, 23:42
LOL!
you caught that budgie in a forest? couldnt have been too easy!
It was, it must have been in the wild for a good week in the torrential rain last year. It virtually landed on me. I had no problem catching him. He lives in a bamboo plant in the corner of the living room. We can't bear to put him in a cage. He's a great little bird.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77/darkcrown_1969/DSC05217.jpg
Cyclingrelf
04-07-2010, 07:26
Well done Scorpio!
Not often you can take a picture like that stood inside your own back door is it?
Like this you mean? :)
http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/fledglings.jpg
There were only three in the first batch but there were five in this one. It was starting to look a little crowded in there!
They're just leaving the nest as I write. I've had to shut the dogs in their compound for today, they like to catch anything small and fluffy that moves.