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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Digeroo on June 14, 2017, 13:43:35
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Was sitting this morning on my plot and a bird flew onto a post on another plot.
It was brown with a red head. It was not green. It sat on the post for some time and squawked and something about its squawk made me think it was immature. It has a very pointed beak, so no raptor.
Short tail, in fact no tail at all. So another pointer to an immature bird. But it did not have black on the cheeks or white shoulders.
Been looking at pics of immature green wood peckers but they seem to have a mottled back and this was not mottled. And I have never seen a green wood pecker here, they are normally the spotted type. Though there has been some tapping going on locally.
I have scoured the net for matching pictures but none are quite right.
There is a guy locally who keeps exotic birds so this can confuse things. I once had a Temminck's tragopan in my garden which was a bit of a surprise.
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Google images can be your friend.
Try looking at pictures of a female blackcap. Despite the name, the female is a dull grey with a brown cap. Just a guess on my part based on your description.
Happy searching!!
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How big? The size of a green woodpecker? A blackcap would be much smaller.
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It was the size of a woodpecker but instead of being green it was brown. Red top to head but no black cheeks.
I have scoured google images and nothing quite fits.