My latest bird images...... click on each to enlarge

Goldcrest back in garden again this year

The very scarce Turtledove

Hoopoe

Waxbill

Rosy faced lovebird

Bluethroat

Osprey

Woodlark

Black Redstart

Chiffchaff?

Then it leaves....

Then it poses

Then it eats

Coot and heron

Eider

Blackbird washing

Corn bunting?

I hope it is a Willow Warbler?

Thrush

Red kite

Stone curlew

Capercaillie

Capercaillie

Ural owl

Ural owl

Three-toed woodpecker

Wryneck

Horned grebe/Slavonian grebe

Garganey

Great grey owl with vole

Black-winged stilt

Redshank

Redshank

Ruff

Avoset

Stonechat

Meadow pipit

Skylark

Blackcap

Kestrel

Short-eared owl

New images of Goldcrest

Snipe

Robin returns for the winter

Goldcrest, juv.

Goldcrest. Europe's second smallest bird @ 3.5 inches

Top view of crest

Grey Heron, Mull

Shag

Gannet

Common Sandpiper

Nuthatch

Sedge warbler

Avocet

Hobby

Marsh harrier

Reed Bunting

Duck chicks at Arundel

Long-tailed Tit

Blackcap

Canada Goose

Oystercatcher

Fieldfare

Juv. Dipper on the River Ribble, Settle

Chiffchaff

Blue Tit

Hedge Sparrow (juv.)

Stonechat at Ashdown Forest

Is this the famous Oozlam Bird, seen in Southwick.

 


The oozlum bird, also spelled ouzelum, is a legendary creature found in Australian and British folk tales and legends. Some versions have it that, when startled, the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity. Other sources state that the bird flies backwards so that it can admire its own beautiful tail feathers, or because while it does not know where it is going, it likes to know where it has been.

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Greenfinch juv.

Chiffchaff

Osprey

Grey Phalarope seen at Hove Lagoon in January 2014. It spent two weeks in the shallow childrens paddling pool.

Grey Phalarope, Hove Lagoon, Jan.2014