Sunday, September 09, 2007
mistle thrush
heard in my back yard today. also a small flock in back feild near soil hill (infact probably visable from soil hill) also 3 wild greylags flew over bradshaw cricket ground last night thses were greylag because of their yellow bills but when you get a flock high in the sky how do you tell if its greylag or pinkfoot (or bean or greenland white fronted or lesser white fronted, fat chance of that though)? collard doves on lawn today as well. and thats about it realy.
4 comments:
greylags are big and bulky,pink feet are small and dainty,as for the others forget in calderdale unless you are very lucky.
Another very useful feature is that greylags show a very pale upper forewing in flight. Pinkfeet always look thin necked and "blob headed" to me with the head and neck appearing dark
canada Geese can also be seen migrating through calderdale,it is rare to see more than a handful of greylags.99% of all migrating, V formation grey Geese are Pink feet in calderdale
Also the call is a good pointer to identification - but it needs a bit of practise! There are some good DVDs/tapes etc around giving the calls of various geese. But out in the field they often sound a lot different! Pink-feet are the ones that come over most often in large flocks in late autumn/winter going east to west between the Humber and Ribble/Mersey estuaries and occasionally the other way.
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