now, my friend says she's just spotted a bird in her garden she's never seen before. She says it's like a red footed falcon, but it had an orrange red bib.
Anyone know what type it is please? she said it had a beak like a bird of prey, so the falcon was the first thing she thought of...but the red throated bit is a puzzler.
anyone know what it is please?
Hiya Petal
we did that thanks and she said that's the bird but it had a red/orange throat piece a bit like a robin but not so far down the breast!!
Ohhhhhhh sounds interesting,,,even though im in town we get lots of varieties of birds. I even saw a Woodpecker one morning pecking away at wood of a tree stump on the ground. I had to look twice as you dont see many of them.
well it's stumped me, I can't find a reference to a grey bird as big as a dove with a red throat, anywhere.
I'll have another look later in European birds I think.
(wonder if she's been on the sherry!)
Have you looked at all the images on the red necked falcon. Some of those have more red on their throats than others.
oh, I'll look that one up CG thanks.
it's not a sparrowhawk, that I do know, and not a red kite. The only bit of red was around it's throat, the rest of the bird was all grey.
