Help from the twitchers please

[cuthound]

On 11/04/2020 at 14:40, tree monkey said:

Being a complete numpty as far as bird ID can any one help

Spotted yesterday, biggish bird black with white bands on the underside of the wings, crest on its head and I think white patch on its chest.

Single note call repeated 3 times

On a stubble field

 

@Dr Bob and anyone else who knows these sort of things. 

 

Thank you

 

Sounds like a penguin to me. ?

 

 

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by cuthound
To remove a duplicate post

[MtB]

5 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

Sounds like a penguin to me. ?

 

 

 

 

No crest. 

 

Unless it was wearing a hat, perhaps.

 

 

[tree monkey]

1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

No crest. 

 

Unless it was wearing a hat, perhaps.

 

 

So is this the carrot you were banging on about up the thread?

[MtB]

1 minute ago, tree monkey said:

So is this the carrot you were banging on about up the thread?

 

What? The penguin? 

 

No, that's a penguin, silly. 

 

[tree monkey]

1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

What? The penguin? 

 

No, that's a penguin, silly. 

 

So where did the carrot come into it?

[MtB]

1 minute ago, tree monkey said:

So where did the carrot come into it?

 

What carrot?

 

 

[cuthound]

10 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

No crest. 

 

Unless it was wearing a hat, perhaps.

 

 

 

Better? He has a comb-over. ?

[Ray T]

7 hours ago, cheshire~rose said:

Fairly unlikely to be an oystercatcher as they like mudflats! coastal and tidal areas - a stubble field is where you would most likely find curlew nesting 

 

 

When we took the land boat to Wick, Caithness a few years ago now we stopped at Scone van site for a couple of days, to break the journey.

Admittedly we weren't too far from the River Tay, but every day half dozen or so Oyster Catchers regularly visited the camp site.

 

12 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

No crest. 

 

Unless it was wearing a hat, perhaps.

 

 

Could have been a Rockhopper.

Edited April 12, 2020 by Ray T

[tree monkey]

19 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

What carrot?

 

 

The carrot, you know the orange one

[TheBiscuits]

Just now, tree monkey said:

The carrot, you know the orange one

 

Trump is a carrot?

 

[tree monkey]

9 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

Trump is a carrot?

 

I'm not sure, mike certainly seems to think so

[Dr Bob]

5 hours ago, tree monkey said:

I'm not sure, mike certainly seems to think so

Carrots don't have crests. 

[MtB]

1 minute ago, Dr Bob said:

Carrots don't have crests. 

 

What has a crest and sounds like a carrot?

 

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

What has a crest

 

[MtB]

Just now, TheBiscuits said:

 

 

Good try but doesn't sound like a lapwing. 

 

I mean carrot. 

 

Clue:

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Good try but doesn't sound like a lapwing. 

 

 

That's a cockatoo, so doesn't sound much like a carrot.

 

Unless it happens to be called Jasper or Kevin.

 

 

[Dr Bob]

10 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

What has a crest and sounds like a carrot?

 

 

 

A Pangolin?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eta. ......what the bloody hell is a pangolin anyway?

[MtB]

1 minute ago, TheBiscuits said:

That's a cockatoo, so doesn't sound much like a carrot.

 

Its a member of the carrot family. 

Just now, Dr Bob said:

A Pangolin?

 

eta. ......what the bloody hell is a pangolin anyway?

 

You're BATS

 

A pangolin is a bit like a cross between Higgs and TWC.

 

[cuthound]

13 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

A Pangolin?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eta. ......what the bloody hell is a pangolin anyway?

 

I'm not sure but I think Captain Correlli had one. ?

[Dr Bob]

2 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

I'm not sure but I think Captain Correlli had one. ?

I'm sure there were strings attached.

[tree monkey]

Look you lot I though we had this ID sorted as a LBJ and now whilst I sleep I find it's some sort of 

 

Trump/carrot/pangolin hybrid with a Crest made of highly polished teeth that plays some sort of rare and esoteric stringed instrument.

 

Come on what is the bloody bird!

[Dr Bob]

34 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Look you lot I though we had this ID sorted as a LBJ and now whilst I sleep I find it's some sort of 

 

Trump/carrot/pangolin hybrid with a Crest made of highly polished teeth that plays some sort of rare and esoteric stringed instrument.

 

Come on what is the bloody bird!

No eyed dear...but just in case....don't eat it!

[Ray T]

2 hours ago, tree monkey said:

Look you lot I though we had this ID sorted as a LBJ and now whilst I sleep I find it's some sort of 

 

Trump/carrot/pangolin hybrid with a Crest made of highly polished teeth that plays some sort of rare and esoteric stringed instrument.

 

Come on what is the bloody bird!

One of these?

 

 

[Ray T]

2 hours ago, tree monkey said:

Look you lot I though we had this ID sorted as a LBJ and now whilst I sleep I find it's some sort of 

 

Trump/carrot/pangolin hybrid with a Crest made of highly polished teeth that plays some sort of rare and esoteric stringed instrument.

 

Come on what is the bloody bird!

Or this?

 

 

[Dr Bob]

59 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Or this?

 

 

 

Nah, not enough white under the wings.