Shoebill Enclosure

Hi mr cynical ☺ i kid u not it was a shoebill but please do let me know if anyone else has spotted one .rare as it is i did see it it was april 2013 when it flew onto my neighbours roof in rawmarsh rotherham south yorkshire i tell u the area because that's where it was spotted by me from my bedroom window and schoolkids playing football in their school field in the space of 24 hours .

I realise you think it not possible but in this world strange things do sometimes happen and because all the stats do not seem to add up it does not always mean it didnt or cant occur. But i post this in the hope that someone else got lucky and saw the impossible happen too .

Any documentary evidence of this (at school I meant …, I read the rest ..)?

I wonder if it was a grey heron and you mistook the neck held folded up (I'm sure there's a better word for this) as the large bill of a shoebill?

I stand by what i saw totally i have seen the grey heron and it is definitely not that. I know ppl would find it hard to believe and that if it is your and their choice then so be it.

I remember when I saw that velociraptor in the bread section at ASDA. I had the same problem, nobody believed me either

Grow up .!!

I do not care that u dont believe it not one bit. I have told of what i had seen.if a professional bird spotter had seen it ppl are quick to believe it .but when an ordinary person with not alot of knowledge about birds tells of what they have seen every one doubts it . it is not impossible. Im not saying they migrated or anything im just telling what i saw is that wrong ?

Either you are a wind-up merchant, in which case, good work.

Or you genuinely believe that you saw a shoebill, in which case, trust those who know a great deal more than you when they say that you did not. And stop embarrassing yourself by arguing otherwise. Really....