One that got away...
...and one that has stayed for a while.
Remember this chap?
Yup - the partially albino/leucistic Blackbird is now in his fourth year and looking quite perky. Well he looks perky in real life - in this picture he just looks like a fuzzy blob.
The ones that got away? 4 ducks flew over yesterday in the direction of Barnes, but the light wasn't good. My best guess was Shoveler. Unfortunately I couldn't be positive on the ID. Strangely one of the birds had legs trailing prominently behind the tail - which I don't know of being an ID feature of any of our ducks but in the brief time I had I was rather fixated on this point. So it may have been a Shoveler with a short tail. Either way. No tick.
2 comments:
I have a very similar male blackbird that visits my back yard regularly.
Derek
We have a group of Robins(not the 'proper'ones, the American type)that are leucistic.
They're here early every year on their way to Canada.
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