What bird is this?

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MarkRSi

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5,782 posts

224 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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My brother was trainspotting in Yorkshire and spotted this bird we've never seen before, can't find anything from bird reference books etc. Any ideas chaps?


rjben

917 posts

288 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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Are you sure he's doing it right?

dudleybloke

20,377 posts

192 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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Its not a mallard.

alfie2244

11,292 posts

194 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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dudleybloke said:
Its not a mallard.
That's blue anyway.

V8FGO

1,651 posts

211 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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Wife thinks it might be a half albino blackbird.

Cudd Wudd

1,095 posts

131 months

Sunday 16th April 2017
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V8FGO said:
Wife thinks it might be a half albino blackbird.
Exactly what I was about to post smile

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/read-and...

Google images show partial albino ones.

MarkRSi

Original Poster:

5,782 posts

224 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Yes was blackbird sized apparently. Mystery solved, cheers all thumbup

Catweazle

1,550 posts

148 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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What a coincidence, I saw something similar in the pub garden on Saturday evening.

thebraketester

14,627 posts

144 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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It's a swan