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JonathanD

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You deserve several pints for that!!!!

I'll go with juvenile Heron. Although I reserve the right to change this if I'm wrong.
 

scanker

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The feet look sufficiently huge for me to guess coot. :)

The beak's not too clear in the photograph - it's not cormorant length is it?
 

jdlenton

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This is a hard one :eek: the birds wet so the coulours are all wrong and i can't quite make out the beak but I'll put my mone on warter rail as well. Knowing the habitat your in that would fit quite nicley

you could have put a beter picture up kevin :p

J*

 
As Leon-1 pointed this out

Just a little one for you, if you "save picture as" in your thread on what type of bird it is, it asks if you want to save it as "Water Rail".

I thought I would put up the answer :eek:

i wonder how many of those who got it right, had sussed that out :confused:

It is indeed a juvenile Water Rail. Below is a picture of an adult I took during the winter.

Well done to those who got it right! :D
 

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C_Claycomb

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Hmmmmm...mixed feelings :rolleyes:

Feel pretty smug that I got it right just from looking at the picture, early on, and not being into birds.... :D

Feeling a numpty that I didn't think of the "technical" solution, or even notice it when Leon posted :eek:

Oh well :cool:
 

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