This species famously bred near Nottingham in, I believe, the late 1940s or 1950s. Beautiful delicate birds! Reply ↓
This birds are from the Western Hemisphere. Most possible thing they might have been introduced perhaps in the ’40’s Thank you, John for the info. 🙂 Reply ↓
No, my mistake. I didn’t realise that there were two different species. The ones near Nottingham were the same as the Mediterranean or eastern hemisphere birds.
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This species famously bred near Nottingham in, I believe, the late 1940s or 1950s. Beautiful delicate birds!
This birds are from the Western Hemisphere. Most possible thing they might have been introduced perhaps in the ’40’s Thank you, John for the info. 🙂
No, my mistake. I didn’t realise that there were two different species. The ones near Nottingham were the same as the Mediterranean or eastern hemisphere birds.
A lovely capture HJ, they have such long legs for wading
Thank you, Ashley. 🙂
Beautiful, it really stands out against the steepled background.
Yes, attracted my attention, the picture came out OK. Thank you, Chris. 🙂
Given those long legs there’s no prizes for guessing where the name comes from!
That’s the right on target name! 🙂 Thanks, D. 🙂