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    Veery, Lunna, Mainland Shetland 30 Sep 2023

    Veery nice, surely?
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Had a quick break in Cyprus, which the guides said would be great for birds, but it was intensely disappointing. I was there more for the archaeology, but even on that sort of trip I usually get something fun, like hoopoe in North Macedonia or green bee-eater in Egypt. I think I only saw about...
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    Two passerines (warbler/wheatear?), Lycabettus Hill, Athens, 25 September

    Coal tit makes sense, there were some around, the angle definitely fooled me though.
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    Two passerines (warbler/wheatear?), Lycabettus Hill, Athens, 25 September

    Think the warbler is a willow warbler but I did not hear it sing. The second one is bemusing me because it looks a bit like a desert wheatear but that's not an Athenian bird. I only got the one shot as I didn't even know I had seen it - I was trying to photograph a tit (coal, I think)...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Only one newie from a recent Greek holiday - cirl bunting in Parnitha. Also saw a calamensis blue tit.
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Spoonbill at Blacktoft Sands, Yorkshire.
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    Most memorable bird encounters

    In Athens a couple of years ago, girlfriend is from there, and we're walking through the park near the Benaki museum. I hear a loud raaaak and am thinking "magpie". But it's too loud and too insistent and I say to her, "I think it's a parakeet". She thinks I'm mad but we go chasing after the...
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    Your most unlikely birding experience

    I've only ever got one new spot when I've been urinating. In the nature reserve at the top left of Singapore. Toilets do not have a roof so while I was relieving myself I could stare into the forest over the wall. Where I saw a pair of laced woodpeckers. (the pun writes itself)
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    In my attempt to get the least impressive tick in the thread, with a poor sighting of a very common bird...sparrowhawk. Now am wondering if I've seen them before and assumed they were kestrels.
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    Is this a bird's nest?, Parnithi, near Athens, Greece

    I'm guessing coincidence, she's not someone who spots birds. The smallest wildlife she spotted on that walk was a deer.
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    Is this a bird's nest?, Parnithi, near Athens, Greece

    Cool, thanks. Thought it was a bit weird.
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    Is this a bird's nest?, Parnithi, near Athens, Greece

    Friend of mine took this pic, then heard chirruping inside, and backed away carefully. Before she mentioned the voices I assumed it was a web of some sort. Is this a nest, and, if so, a bird's nest? It's quite high up in altitude, near mountain forests.
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    Songbird in Poros, Greece, Jan 2023

    Cool, thanks. Fooled me by not being black...
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    Songbird in Poros, Greece, Jan 2023

    Thought it was a flycatcher but it bounced around the rocks for a while looking like a wheatear - red tail undersid should help but I've no idea...
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    Upupa antaios

    Aristophanes' Birds (420s BC) is pretty clear. When two men meet Tereus, they burst into laughter at his "triple crest" and beak, and ask if he is a peacock. I doubt a lapwing would generate that sort of reaction. That's leaving aside the onomatopoeia of έποψ.
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Last of two dozen from a trip to the Singapore Grand Prix: a white-bellied sea-eagle over Marina Bay.
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    A chiff, or a chaff

    Somewhat disturbing site in the middle of Worksop today - half a chiffchaff... Seemed to be singing and flying like a good 'un. I assume it has moulted its tail feathers, but it also seemed only to have one leg... Birth defect or accident survivor?
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Holiday to Greece got me a woodchat shrike at the Delphic oracle...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Sedge warbler at Rainham Marshes. Only went there because someone had blocked the Dartford Tunnel...
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    It is indeed non-European...I understand that this is quite a common one, but it was the only one I've ever seen.
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    I should put location under a spoiler tag...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Last of a handful from a quick holiday: broad-winged hawk in St Vincent.
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    Grey-backed passerine, Roseau, Dominica, 10 December

    Yes, I thought there was yellow there as well. There were plenty of grey kingbirds around elsewhere but they did not sit like that, they were sort of bolder.
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    Grey-backed passerine, Roseau, Dominica, 10 December

    Got from a coach, when really looking at the ostensibly headless dove on the right, but I'm more confused about the little chap on the left...
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    Crowpie

    Leucistic carrion crow flying over Keeper's Pool in Sutton Park.
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    • crow & jay family leucistic bird magpie
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    • Category: Albinos and other odd birds
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