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Recent content by GreyNomad500

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    Any thoughts this bird?

    Spotted this on Friday on the coast at Keyhaven on the Hampshire coast, just where a stream comes in and the Hurst Spit starts. There was a group of about 6 of them. My best guess (aided by the RSPB app) is that it's a Turnstone in winter plumage. Yellow legs very distinctive. Any thoughts...
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    Unidentified bird call just outside Winchester, England

    Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and contributions. I think we've converged on an identification! A young fledgling is now a very likely answer and I'm now convinced by PaulCountyDurham's recording of a young blackbird. As far as I'm concerned that's what it was but alas can't claim...
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    Unidentified bird call just outside Winchester, England

    Thanks to Carery for your suggestion. There are quite a few Cetti's Warblers in this part of Hampshire and this species did make my long-list of candidates. Thanks also to PaulCountyDurham for the blackcap suggestion. That's an extremely common species around here but it didn't make my list...
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    Unidentified bird call just outside Winchester, England

    Thanks mummymonkey. That's a very interesting suggestion and certainly a candidate, especially as I made the recording on 9th June. I hear plenty of song and mistle thrushes in this area which also make your suggestion feasible. However I think there's a difference in the timbres that makes...
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    Unidentified bird call just outside Winchester, England

    Thanks Derbyfella. In fact I found an online converter and converted the file to .mp3. I've now attached it. Are you able to hear it (it's not as good as the original recording but there's sufficient info for ID)? any thoughts what this southern England bird might be? Thanks G.
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    Unidentified bird call just outside Winchester, England

    I normally pride myself on being able to identify most birds in SE England by their calls alone. But I was walking along a dense tree and hedge-lined footpath that ran between two farmers' fields and I heard a call that's defeated me. And I couldn't see the bird either even though it was...
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    White-fronted robin in Blue Mountains, NSW?

    Many thanks Alan and Larry. I can see where you're coming from so I'll settle on your assessment. G.
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    White-fronted robin in Blue Mountains, NSW?

    Just spotted this pretty little bird (12-15cm?) on a path near the Conservation Hut at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. Not sure what it is. Field guide offers several possibilities. Perhaps Restless Flycatcher (but apart from the white breast, the rest of the bird's...
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    Hovering bird above Cottesloe dunes

    Thanks very much for that identification.
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    Hovering bird above Cottesloe dunes

    Spotted this bird as we walked on the path above the dunes by the sea at Cottesloe in Perth WA. It hovered like a kestrel above the dunes in the very strong winds, obviously in search of food but it clearly isn't a kestrel. In the same walk, we clearly saw an Australian Kestrel and a...
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    Is this an Australian corvine?

    Thanks mjh73. I think with your assessment and that of Larry Sweetland,we've knocked this one on the head! It's clearly a young Australian Raven. Thanks again to all. G.
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    Is this an Australian corvine?

    Thanks Larry - your suggestion was what I was thinking. But it's that curved bill that still bugs me! Perhaps it becomes straighter as it becomes an adult? A local birder's opinion would be useful. G.
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    Is this an Australian corvine?

    I spotted this fellow on the wall of a garden in Cottesloe, a coastal suburb of Perth in Australia, but can't be sure of what it is. The most obvious thought is that it is one of the smaller corvines. Perhaps my field guide (Slater) isn't good enough but none of the illustrations match this...
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    Birds in Stockholm archipelago

    I have been walking in some of the islands in the Stockholm archipelago and have come across two birds I can't identify. The first taken on the the island of Utö (just one picture) looks a bit like a shrike but our field guide doesn't agree! It had been raining hence its rather drab look. We...
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    Bird identification (in London Zoo unfortunately!)

    Thanks very much for your speedy replies!! I would concur with your answers. If you go to Google images and type in Black-faced Ibis, up come loads of pictures almost identical to the one I've posted. And a similar exercise for the other two species delivers images of the same accuracy...
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