libspero Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Anyone know who/what this cheeky chappy is? Don't think we've ever seen him before.. a new visitor to our back garden [http://s17.postimg.org/vlguvs4jz/DSC_0018.jpg] [http://s17.postimg.org/5u04kbmz3/DSC_0015.jpg] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Anyone know who/what this cheeky chappy is? Don't think we've ever seen him before.. a new visitor to our back garden [http://s17.postimg.org/vlguvs4jz/DSC_0018.jpg] [http://s17.postimg.org/5u04kbmz3/DSC_0015.jpg] It seems to have brought it's own green miasma with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yellowhammer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yellowhammer? Confirm....tis most certainly a yellowhammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Is it a drone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yellow hammer Its a canarythrush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Yellowhammer? Confirm....tis most certainly a yellowhammer. Yellow hammer Seems unanimous.. Originally I presumed it was a young blue tit but I'd never seen anything quite so yellow before. My p1ss poor photography doesn't do him justice.. he really is striking with his bright yellow head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It seems to have brought it's own green miasma with it. Is that some sort of FIAT van? You should go into "marketing". I'm afraid I'm useless with this country stuff. I can just about tell a duck from a parrot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdidentifier/ Always worth a look on there.The sound is good! http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/y/yellowhammer/index.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Seems unanimous.. Originally I presumed it was a young blue tit but I'd never seen anything quite so yellow before. My p1ss poor photography doesn't do him justice.. he really is striking with his bright yellow head 'He'? That tiny thing must be a female. The yellowhammer species is famous for it's huge cоck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 'He'? That tiny thing must be a female. The yellowhammer species is famous for it's huge cоck. Nope.. pretty sure you're confusing it with the Canary Thrush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It might be a Common Jaundiced FÏ…ckwit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Cardboard cutout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Actually, I know nothing about birds, but I think it could be a Dalmatian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Actually, I know nothing about birds, but I think it could be a Dalmatian. Think you're flogging a dead horse there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronyx Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It might be a Common Jaundiced FÏ…ckwit. Can't be, I haven't been out today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Not a bird watcher, but I can botch words. Does that make me an orthinologist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Think you're flogging a dead horse there. I'll milk it for all that it's worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 My p1ss poor photography doesn't do him justice.. he really is striking with his bright yellow head We get them here in the garden - well, probably not now, with three cats. They arrive around this time and stay until summer. As the breeding season progresses they get yellower and brighter until the males are positively neon in colour and really striking. IIRC their song is said to sound like "a little bit of bread and no cheese" or similar, but I can't say I hear it like that. They're a type of bunting, not rare, but not common either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I'm quite good at catching birds with my car. Have caught a pigeon and a seagull in the front bumper spoiler. A fieldfare in the front grille and a skylark got stuck headfirst in the gap between the bonnet and the windscreen neither wipers/screenwash or violent application of brakes would dislodge it and when I got out it turned out to miraculously still be alive. I managed to extricate it, but it seemed to be in shock, I left it on a garden wall to get its sh1t together or failing that as a tasty treat for a local cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cavey Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Had a blackbird bounce off my helmet once! Could've been a disaster if my visor was up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I cycled over a rook once. You'd think it would squish, but it was surprisingly hard. I don't know if it actually survived, I didn't dare look back. Squeamish. Also once in a job that involved teams of us driving round the backlanes in a landrover, and one time we started swerving all over the place, and we were all being tossed around in the back, and braked to a stop, and the driver said "pheasant" which we assumed he had being trying to avoid, but he hopped out and fetched it, to take home for his tea. He had deliberately run into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Almost forgot, when I Ieft the door of my expensive Italian sportscar open in Southend, one night, I got a Brassy Golddigger stuck in the passenger seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Had a blackbird bounce off my helmet once! Ah, fond memories, the brothels of Lagos.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Almost forgot, when I Ieft the door of my expensive Italian sportscar open in Southend, one night, I got a Brassy Golddigger stuck in the passenger seat. Found an old boot in the backseat once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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