Brown and white magpie- A few years ago while out walking at Leasowes park with my Dad we noticed something very strange about one particuler magpie and that was that it was brown and white instead of its usual colour scheme of black and white. Last year (2011) we found out why it was brown and white, we asked one of the park keepers or voluteers at the park and he told us that the reason the magpie was a different colour to what it should be was because of what it was eating, he said it was because of something in the trees in the area.
fully black magpies- Now many people may just think I had looked at a crow and got extremely comfused with this but I know for a fact I did'nt. I was walking home from my friends house one afternoon and I noticed a group of birds in the field near the Sneyd reservoir, at first I just thought it was a normal group of crows but when I got closer to the group I noticed they were much smaller than crow and they had much longer tails, the way I figured out that they were magpies was by listening to their call which was exactly the same as a normal magpie call. If anybody knows why these 3 or 4 magpies were fully black please comment on the blog.
Black grey heron- Late my Dad told me he had seen a black grey heron at Bartley green reservoir, at first I just thought he had seen a Cormorant and some how mistook it for a heron. But then I took a look for my self and realised my Dad had not made any mistake he had actually seen a black grey heron bellow is a picture to prove it.
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| Picture by Jason Davis |
An almost fully black Pheasant (5/01/13)- Im writing this on the day I saw this, John Holian pointed this bird out to me at Uttoxeter Quarry, the bird was with another normal colored Pheasant, the bird was almost fully black, this is another strange bird I have seen. Look out for this at the quarry it may turn up.
