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Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    Had a wonderful long walk with the dog earlier.

    Anyway. I saw a bird. Not yer blackbird or sparrow or starling etc. This thing was huge and seemed to arrive from nowhere. It flew straight to the edge of a stream, had a wander about, checking me out i suspect and then jumped into the stream.

    What was the bird? It looked like one of these: yellow-billed-stork-downstroke-_T9J8859-Nakuru-N-PK,-Kenya.jpg

    Would it have been a stork? Never seen one round these parts before? It was also darker than the above image, but not unlike.

    I thought the dinosaurs had come back: http://paleontology.edwardtbabinski.us/fea..._dino_bones.gif icon25.gif

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    The Penguin Apprentice

    The Penguin

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  • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
    • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
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    Don't know what it is but it appears to have dropped Andy's baby off already.

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    Mondy Enthusiast

    Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    Don't know what it is but it appears to have dropped Andy's baby off already.

    It certainly wasn't a Penguin.

    May well have been Cheese. Googling Heron images, it looks alike, but smaller? This thing really looked massive. I'd have been a good 50m away and it looked awesome from there. Maybe just an adult Heron :rofl:

    Shoulda caught it and sold it on to Tesco :rofl:

    I think we're all still in shock that you've actually got one.

    What's even more astonishing is she married me

    Edit: That doesn't right. "It may well have been Cheese"....nah,it wasn't cheese, Cheeseburger

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    Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    Oh look, wonder if CO2 has played it's part in them breeding?

    heronsuk.gif

    :rofl: :lol:

    Looks like a Grey heron Mondy :-) been a few spottied over the past few weeks around these parts..

    Ok, cool, mate.. :rofl:

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    flagpole Rookie

    flagpole

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  • Location: Lindum Colonia
    • Location: Lindum Colonia
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    You get close to a heron and they are sodding enormous!

    I can attest to this. One plunged off my roof the other year and I nearly pee'd my pants! I thought it was a vampire! :rofl:

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    NL Aficionado

    NL

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
    • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
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    I would say it was a white stork... dont know what it was doing that far north

    Photos: The group of ten White Stork Ciconia ciconia was at the Huleh Reserve, Israel, on 26 Oct 1981.

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  • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
    • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
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    You get close to a heron and they are sodding enormous!

    I can attest to this. One plunged off my roof the other year and I nearly pee'd my pants! I thought it was a vampire! :lol:

    Ahhaaa Lol @ vampire :rofl::rofl: :lol: , they are big though and I wouldn't like to get too close to one,I bet they would give a nippy nip ;-)..

    Mondy,

    Find it and get the BBQ fired up,I'll bring a bottle :rofl:

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    Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    Honestly, sifting through the various sites on the net with regards Heron's and their sizes, i really believe this was much larger. My initial thought was a stork, but weatherbitez has seen some around his parts too (he's just up the road from me) so i guess it was an adult Heron..

    Who knows..wish i had photo'd it :lol:

    Mondy,

    Find it and get the BBQ fired up,I'll bring a bottle :rofl:

    Oh, i'll be going back tomorrow to find my elusive bird alright :rofl: Bill Oddie hasn't a patch on me :rofl:

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    weatherbitez

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  • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
    • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
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    Yes it could be the white stork although there beaks are a little bit smaller..

    Snapped this a few months ago.

    Honestly, sifting through the various sites on the net with regards Heron's and their sizes, i really believe this was much larger. My initial thought was a stork, but weatherbitez has seen some around his parts too (he's just up the road from me) so i guess it was an adult Heron..

    Who knows..wish i had photo'd it :lol:

    Oh, i'll be going back tomorrow to find my elusive bird alright :rofl: Bill Oddie hasn't a patch on me :rofl:

    Oii Mister He is a she tut ;-)...yup just felt and I'm a woman :rofl: :lol:

    When you actually look at the white stork and Mondy's pic there is immense similarity's so Mondy I think Northern Light is right..

    Well spotted Northern!

    post-4051-1176312161_thumb.jpg

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    weatherbitez Rookie

    weatherbitez

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  • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
    • Location: Maddiston Falkirk
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    But it wasn't white!

    Oh, dear heck...no matter.. :rofl:

    Humble apologies for thinking you were one of the inferior race.LOL

    Look it was white... ;-) it was the suns glare that made you think it wasn't ;-P I do wish you would get those eyes tested..

    No worries :-) your forgiven..you a man it's expected Ha Ha..

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    The Penguin Apprentice

    The Penguin

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  • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
    • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
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    ...yup just felt and I'm a woman :rofl::rofl:
    We need pics of it.

    I was prepared to take her word for it . . .

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    NL Aficionado

    NL

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
    • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
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    Thanks weatherbitz..

    Yes Mondy we need photographic evidence then we can put the identity of this bird to rest..

    And if it is a stork global warming is to blame!!!!! :rofl::rofl: .

    I know storks nest on the continent (Holland, etc) maybe it got pushed over on the easterlies..

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    stormchaser1

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  • Location: North Kenton (Tyne-and-Wear)6miles east from newcastle airport
    • Location: North Kenton (Tyne-and-Wear)6miles east from newcastle airport
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    MONDY

    Definately a GREY HERON

    [ARDEA CINEREA]

    90CM [36IN]

    HUGE. Adults grey above, white below. slender, white neck with dark streaks down throat. Breeding adults have yellow dagger- shaped beaks, flushed pink, and a drooping black and white crest. Legs long, yellowish. Immatures resemble adults but lack crest.

    Well known year round resident or visitor to wetlands of all descriptions, from garden ornamental ponds to lakes, reservoirs and sheltered sea coasts. Nests colonially, sometimes in reeds but more often in trees. Harsh frank call. widespread

    THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM MY BOOK OF BIRDS " WHICH BIRDS" BRIDS OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE

    BY JIM FLEGG WITH ERIC AND DAVID HISKING

    NIGEL

    MONDY

    heck this site out

    http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~leebase/Pages/GHeron.htm

    nigel

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    Mondy Enthusiast

    Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    Thanks, Nigel!!

    That's the burger i saw...HUGE!! :rofl:

    Infact, Nige...on further searching it's Latin name, google threw up this image. This was what i saw; spitting image..thanks everyone.

    GrayHeron1(DD).jpg

    So really, the first image is nothing like it :rofl:

    yellow-billed-stork-downstroke-_T9J8859-Nakuru-N-PK,-Kenya.jpg

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    kar999

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
    • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
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    http://www.birdsasart.com/yellow-billed-stork-downstroke-_T9J8859-Nakuru-N-PK,-Kenya.jpg

    Well that's what your image says.... I wish I had a zoom that could see as far as Africa!! :rofl:

    Nice spoof Mondy

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    Mondy

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  • Location: Larbert
    • Location: Larbert
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    :rofl:

    I immediately looked up stork on google images, had a quick check around the piccies and decided that was what i saw ( or thought :rofl: )

    I take it their related?

    Pheww, what a fascinating bird this has turned out to be

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
    • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
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    Two slices of the white meat for me please and some of that Chestnut stuffing!

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