Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#1
Sorry about the quality it was taken through a grubby window!
Terry
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#2
Think i saw the same bird land on a rooftop near Coombe valley transport,is it a Heron? Seemed to upset the seagulls who were swooping down at it and circling around but the bird didnt seem bothered.saw it early this morning.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#3
Yes a Heron, there will be a few empty ponds around.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#4
Far too big for a Heron. My wife said it was a Crane. It was almost 3 feet tall.
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
Intriguing as this video was taken in a Shepherdswell garden just before Christmas and the assumption is that it was a Heron, if it was it was a very large one.
https://www.facebook.com/jnj.dray/videos/2258632167748839/?t=31Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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#6
Definately not a crane, if it was you could start selling twitchers tickets, pretty sure its a grey heron they get to about a metre in height.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#7
Looks like a heron craning it’s neck to me!
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#8
looks like a large seagull to me. lol
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 365
#9
That's a heron. I saw probably the same one by Barton Path between Charlton Avenue and Limes Road a couple of evenings ago (I've seen them there often (including a pair once)). Was watching it hunt for about a minute before it spotted me and flew off.
I remember earlier this year that the Dover Express (or it may have been the Mercury) printed a picture of what they confidently asserted was a heron on their letters page. It was quite clearly a cormorant (or shag). How you can mistake those for a heron is beyond me.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#10
TheThinWhiteDuke wrote:
I remember earlier this year that the Dover Express (or it may have been the Mercury) printed a picture of what they confidently asserted was a heron on their letters page. It was quite clearly a cormorant (or shag). How you can mistake those for a heron is beyond me.
I guess that is how their Facebook informants identified the bird.
The reporters probably lifted the article virtually word for word as that is how they usually seem to do their so called work.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#11
I've counted my fish, I've still got 42!
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
#12
How did you get them to stop swimming so that you could count them Terry?
You seem to have them well trained.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#13
Easy Howard, I put a chalk mark on each one so I don't count it twice.
Terry
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