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    Best option for Samsung S8 digiscoping

    Thanks for your kind replies. I will take a look at those links. I'm also thinking in a "hand-made" adapter.
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    Best option for Samsung S8 digiscoping

    I have a new Samsung S8 and I'm interested in trying it for digiscoping. I've been looking for information in this section and this is all I found: "We will continue with the 3D printed parts for the time being but the advent of curved glass screens on the Samsung S8 means we won't make a...
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    Gull in Iceland

    Thans for your help. Argentatus seems to be the correct one then.
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    Gull in Iceland

    Thanks for your replies. I will leave it uncertain then, as this is the only picture I have. At least I learnt a glaucoides should be whiter.
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    Gull in Iceland

    Hello. I've just arrived from Iceland back to the terrible heat here in Spain. It was not a birding trip but I tried to see as much birds as I could. It was my first time there and I'm not used to these gulls, so I would like to confirm this is a Larus glaucoides and, if it is, what's best to...
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    Bird identification. Central Spain

    Hello. Could you please help us with this bird? Even with this picture we are having two options and we are not sure which one to choose: Hippolais polyglotta vs. Acrocephalus scirpaceus. Our first choice was the Melodious, but someone said it could be the Reed, and now we have are not really...
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    Short visit in May

    I'm not sure about the local dialect but, for me, hondo and fondo are equivalent: a piece of land lower than the land around it. In their web, they say "El Hondo" is in a tectonic depression called plain of Elche. Nice subject this about local names; like the local names for the same bird in...
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    Short visit in May

    Thanks again. We´ll try both of them.:t: Lazza, Valhondo is one of the multiple local name variations for "deep valley", and this variations are used as local names all over the country; sure "El Hondo" has a similar meaning. Valhondo is a little place near my village (in the center of Spain)...
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    Short visit in May

    Thank you. As we are going to Farne, sure will walk part of the coast, and now the option to Lindisfarne, it will be great to try also some other birds. Red grouse and grey partridge would be great. Can we try those in Cheviot hills?
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    Short visit in May

    Hi birding pals. I'm a Spanish birder travelling to your patch during the first days of May. We are visiting some friends we have in Newcastle, and will travel with more friends and wifes. So, unfortunatly, time for birding will be very little. We will stay in Seahouses for four days and we...
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    Raptor ID - Central Spain

    Thanks. That was the other option we thought. But, those two pictures and this one where taken in the same minute. No other raptors flying; only two birds flying together and "playing" or "fighting". We thought they were the same bird. I usually think that long and little head (like a pigeon)...
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    Raptor ID - Central Spain

    Hi. I'd like your comments about these pictures. I have some very bad pictures where I can see the head pattern of pernis apivorus, but I always saw them not as dark as this one. Thank you. Valhondo
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    Cirlus or citrinella. Galicia, north of Spain

    Thanks a lot. We'll keep this picture as "cirl or yellowhammer". Unfortunately, we could not see the back pattern. I gave some brightness to the picture already; the light was not good and the original is even darker. In this area cirl is easier to see. Anyway, great posts and pictures. Thank...
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    Cirlus or citrinella. Galicia, north of Spain

    Hi. Most of us think this is Emberiza cirlus, but some think it could be citrinella. They say Emberiza cirlus should show a face with more contrast. Picture taken in December; it's the only one we could take. What's your bet? And why? Thanks Jesús
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    Help with gull - North of Spain

    Hello. Could you please help with this gull? The picture is taken in December in the north coast of Spain (Galicia). Thanks and happy new year.
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