Rare bird in garden

[Dangermouse]

Earlier this week my wife was telling me how she and the children had seen an unusual Black and white bird in the garden, about the size of a magpie but more spotted.
Not being as good with the birds as I once was, I blame it on being married and having children, I sat down on the RSPB site and threw several pictures at her, but with no success on finding the one that she had seen.

With the warm weather that we have had last week, I was starting to wonder if perhaps it may have been a visitor from over seas.

This morning she called me back, just as I was leaving from the range. "It's back" she excitedly called, and I went slowly to the back window to see















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DM

[M99]

Flying rat!

Vermin all of them!

[Meaty]

Looks like a racing pigeon to me-they tend to taste better than the wood pigeons :lol:

[Dangermouse]

It did (does-Honest) have a ring on it's leg and was reasonably tame, so I assume someone fancies it,

DM

[Meaty]

Its quite amazing the lengths pigeon 'fanciers' will go too to get there prized birds back as they often get lost. I work with a chap who races these rats and he often has to have them couriered back from various places in the UK and Europe. If you can get a hold of it you can take the number off the ring and look it up on a national database, contact the owner and claim a reward-thats if the owner wants it back! Some of these birds are worth thousands-cant understand it myself but each to their own :roll:

[Dangermouse]

Some of these birds are worth thousands

Dead or alive?

DM

[ovenpaa]

A mate used to have tumblers that looked like this one, they were odd things, they would fly up in the air, perform what looked like a stall and then tumble back to earth, recovering a few times in the process. He spent more on the things than I did on cars..

[John25]

Tumblers?

Do they clean cases?

:lol:

[ovenpaa]

Just tree rats that rolled a bit in mid air, probably makes them more sporting to shoot