What is it?

[Mesquite]

Definitely Norway Maple. You can tell because there's norway you can mistake it for anything else...

Where's your coat Mike? :bluThinki

 

[Harvestman]

Where's your coat Mike? :bluThinki

I've used that one before, many times.

The old ones are the best (as my wife tells me when she sees the grey hairs in my beard)

 

[Harvestman]

Go on then, wossis?
(The tree, not my friend)

 

[Elen Sentier]

It's a bloke in jeans

 

[Harvestman]

It's a bloke in jeans

I'll tell her you said that! She won't be happy...

 

[Niels]

A sweet chestnut tree, nettles by the fence and holly (?) in the background!

 

[Harvestman]

A sweet chestnut tree, nettles by the fence and holly (?) in the background!

Correct. An an enormous one at that.

 

[Harvestman]

Bending the thread title then...

What are these?

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Oystercatchers.

 

[Harvestman]

Oystercatchers.

Not oystercatchers (although there were some around)

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Mutant turnstones ?

 

[Harvestman]

Not turnstones either. The winter plumage confused the heck out of me too.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Purple sandpipers ?

 

[Harvestman]

Purple sandpipers ?

You are going through almost the same list that I did when I identified them. Think common bird.

 

[blacktimberwolf]

It's the dark heads that throw me, They have a plover/dunlin like silhouette but ???..............they are waders are they not or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

 

[Harvestman]

It's the dark heads that throw me, They have a plover/dunlin like silhouette but ???..............they are waders are they not or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

Definately waders, and you pretty much have it in that sentence...

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Dunlin ?..........

 

[Trencakey]

Think common bird.

Katie Price ?

 

[Ed Edwards]

Katie Price ?

If only there was a 'Like' Button

 

[blacktimberwolf]

This is the biggest I could get them ..................still doesn't help though



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