Given the recent interest in Nutcrackers (The Snipe) and the putative pair seen in the county - I dug out this reminder of what they look like for those past military age that may have seen it just over 20 years ago.
Are these are in the county in the forests this year?
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could you clarify the last sentence please ?
What putative pair????
Before panic sets in and, dare I say it, the word suppression is banded about, I came across this info second hand from someone who phones me on a regular basis about his garden birds [but not these]. He was told of two 'funny birds' seen by a friend of his about two weeks ago now [well before I was contacted], and the description initially given could easily have been of Starling. Both Smudger and I have now spoken to the original observer, who is not a birder, and without any hints being dropped he seemd to come up with a description which fitted Nutcracker. However the birds have not been seen since the first observation and where they were seen is private site at which access would not be allowed. It is still not beyond the bounds of possibility of course, that he saw the birds, looked in a book and decided they were Nutcrackers and then ex post facto decided he had seen all the crucial features.
Probably the same 'pair' I heard about last week.
They may be Thrashers!!
Or Purple Glossy Starlings !
The property where these birds were seen is not far from three potential upland conifer plantations - the 'best' being possibly Gelli wion just south of Trehafod - the reason for the post is to alert any forest watchers to the possibility.
BTW the description given to me could only have been Nutcracker - just like describing a picture it was.
If you don't get the full 'suite' of characters you're a fruit and nut case.
Hehe stick to the day job Maurice! :-)
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