bird id please

[orion22]

i took this at Gulliver's in warrington yesterday, no idea what it was but it was used to people because i was only 6 feet away and it wasn't bothered:shrug:

 

[BRASH]

Looks like a young Moorhen to me.

 

[orion22]

there were a good few moorhens about so that ties in ,

thanks

 

[Deleted member 29733]

?.

 

[BRASH]

It's never a Water Rail, nothing like one. Legs are the wrong colour, beak and head are the wrong shape and it has the destinctive greyish chest, creamy coloured lateral line and under rump of a juvinile Moorhen. It's a Moorhen

 

[Cobra]

Beaks too short for a start on a 'rail
probably moorhen

 

[Chris Wormwell]

Beaks too short for a start on a 'rail
probably moorhen

Moorhens are rails!!
And this is a Moorhen.

 

[Cobra]

Moorhens are rails!!
And this is a Moorhen.

If you read back you would see that water rail had been suggested hence the (')rail

And yes I know that moorhens and coots are the rail family
But thanks for pointing it out

 

[BRASH]

Thye guy (AFC) has deleted his suggestion of water rail, causing confusion:shrug:

 

[Cobra]

Thye guy (AFC) has deleted his suggestion of water rail, causing confusion:shrug:

**** happens
but you still mentioned (in a referring way) that it wasn't
Oh who cares :shrug:

 

[BRASH]

**** happens
but you still mentioned (in a referring way) that it wasn't
:shrug:

Only because it isn't

 

[Cobra]

Only because it isn't

Yep I got that impression