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Recent content by Gavin Haig

  1. Gavin Haig

    Caspian Gull,

    Private messages work pretty well on BF...unless of course one prefers to grandstand for the 'public good'.
  2. Gavin Haig

    Caspian Gull,

    Ha ha! Yeah, right. Opinions about what exactly? Did you 'luckily' save the whole blog post by any chance? A bit of context would be nice. Mind you, judging by the various mealy-mouthed comments above, perhaps opinions were not actually what you were after here... Oh how I've missed BF
  3. Gavin Haig

    British Birds - March 2013

    Yes, reading my last post back again it does come over a bit presumptuous doesn't it. Ah well, sorry about that. It certainly wasn't meant to be a slight on anyone's intelligence. Still, 'gripping' is a word I would generally associate with something thrilling and unputdownable. I found it a...
  4. Gavin Haig

    British Birds - March 2013

    With respect, Martin, I doubt the majority of BB readers will find it a 'gripping read'. From your perspective, maybe. Whilst not a scientist I had a pretty decent education, yet found this paper very heavy going, peppered as it is with arcane terminology. That said, it was an eye-opener...not...
  5. Gavin Haig

    British Birds - January 2013

    Absolutely! Yet more arcane terminology to learn. I foresee BF threads comprising photo of aberrant bird followed by much erudite wrangling over exactly what label we should give to the pale and manky specimen! ;)
  6. Gavin Haig

    Icterine Warbler? St Marys, Isles of Scilly, UK (31st August 2012)

    I'm in the Icterine camp. The apparent primary projection is the clincher for me. Enlarging the attached photo shows pixel shades, and where the primaries extend across the leaf silhouette behind, the pixel colours are contiguous with those in the rest of the wing, but not with those of the...
  7. Gavin Haig

    Geese, Surrey

    As I said, Tideliner, my comments were 'loud and opinionated', and clearly ill-considered. I don't know what came over me. You are obviously spot on. PS. Sorry David, I was rooting for you there, but alas....
  8. Gavin Haig

    Geese, Surrey

    Of course, when I say 'Your geese are clearly NOT Greylags' that is just my loud and opinionated judgement. I have often been wrong! ;)
  9. Gavin Haig

    Geese, Surrey

    Well devilbirder, as I quite regularly dip into your blog via Steve Gale's, I know that you are an experienced birder whose ability belies his age, so I am guessing that you took photos in order to add to what you could see through your bins, rather than replace it. I am sure the previous poster...
  10. Gavin Haig

    uk wildfowl

    Agreed. Often a struggle to ID birds from really poor image (no offence capdegat) but download it and enlarge, and Brent subsequently looks the obvious conclusion.
  11. Gavin Haig

    Gull ID - Cornwall

    Agree with Luke. Ratio of argenteus to argentatus in Cornwall has got to be many thousands to one. So, when struggling for for conclusive plumage features, go with the geographical ones! ;)
  12. Gavin Haig

    Something from Uganda

    That was prompt! Thanks very much.
  13. Gavin Haig

    Something from Uganda

    A friend sent me some bird photos taken in Uganda over the last few weeks. I've managed to ID them all from the net except this one, because I don't know what kind of bird it is and evrything I've typed into Google so far has drawn a blank. Needless to say I have no relevant field guide. Please...
  14. Gavin Haig

    Auk ID

    Jamie, sounds like you're in the Raz camp! ;) You should have posted a photo that looked less perfect for Little Auk!
  15. Gavin Haig

    More suppression in Cornwall

    Agreed. Unfortunately though, if someone gets on your 'Sabine's Gull' and corrects the ID before you do the situation is still loaded with defamatory potential! ;) This thread has certainly come a long way in 60-odd posts...
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