What is this?!?

Re: What is this?!?

Emma Purnell — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:23:31 GMT

Hmm.

I doesn't seem injured, but is very quiet and seemingly quite tame from the way it behaves around people.

Really foxed by this one, it doesn't act like a wild bird at all and I deal with all our wild babies we have in. I just assumed a quail because of how it behaved!

Now the question is what to do with it! I will keep it overnight with food, water and shelter to be sure it is 100% as it is not stressed now it is away from the cats!

Re: What is this?!?

Kim Buckley — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:21:17 GMT

They are fairly common in the countryside so maybe it got lost! Injured at all?

Re: What is this?!?

Diane Westwood — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:21:13 GMT

No doubt about it. That's a red legged partridge.

Re: What is this?!?

Kerry Spain — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:19:08 GMT

Is it a turtle dove?

Re: What is this?!?

Emma Purnell — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:18:42 GMT

[quote user="Kim Blowing RVN"]

Looks like a red legged partridge to me. Has it got red legs?

[/quote]

They aren't the reddest things I have ever seen, more pinky, but otherwise it looks almost exactly like one! Thank you!

Now where on earth has it come from... not the usual thing to find in a town by a main road...

Re: What is this?!?

Kim Buckley — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:27 GMT

Looks like a red legged partridge to me. Has it got red legs?

Re: What is this?!?

Emma Purnell — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:13:51 GMT

Drat! Picture is a bit too long... despite the blink this one might help...