Found this bird track. Excited because I haven’t seen one in the ‘flesh’ before. I’m quite certain of which species it is, can any one hazard a guess (or maybe confirm).
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Bird track - not seen this one before
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Is it a coot ?
My garden runs alongside a nature walk and a burn, and in Winter we get visitors to the bird feeder that we don't otherwise see. The marks in the snow from a coot looked a bit like those. The moorhen is a bit more like the arrow stamp on govt metalwork.
My garden runs alongside a nature walk and a burn, and in Winter we get visitors to the bird feeder that we don't otherwise see. The marks in the snow from a coot looked a bit like those. The moorhen is a bit more like the arrow stamp on govt metalwork.
That’s what I thought initially but it’s not robust enough. I’m now thinking it’s Green Woodpecker.
Moorhen and coot are very similar. Except coot toes are slightly curved and fringed with webbing.
Me neither. Owl tracks are more even like an x and robust. That’s what thought initially but had a good look in my book…
https://www.waterstones.com/book/bird-tracks/john-rhyder/david-wege/9781803991702
Strange they’re not more common in Dorset Nigel, I’m not far off in W. Sussex and I hear or see them almost every day. So much so that it’s been on my mind to Google and find out if they might even be becoming a problem with the rapid population rise.
The tracks themselves I have never seen, rather than the birds. I have one that visits the garden regularly.
I took the photo in woods near Harting. Hampshire or just over the border from Sussex. I live in New Forest and see/hear lots of Green woodpecker and have seen their sign - pecked rotten logs, grubbed up moss and ants nests turned over all across the south.
I took the photo in woods near Harting. Hampshire or just over the border from Sussex. I live in New Forest and see/hear lots of Green woodpecker and have seen their sign - pecked rotten logs, grubbed up moss and ants nests turned over all across the south.
