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  1. Tavish

    Skulking bird in France

    Thanks Nick. I notice your location en Francais. This bird was whilst on holiday near Lassay Les Chateaux. Thanks Everyone.
  2. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    Many thanks - One and all!
  3. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    Cheers Paul/Mark - I suppose my position is that I have my ten minutes of intermittent observation AND the photo. I was watching and snapping but this is as good as the photo's got. Then I consulted the books based on memory and felt pretty confident about Wood Warbler. Then I put the photo on...
  4. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    Looking on Google at photos of birds taken from below looking up at at the underside I think there is something in KenM's comment (above) about tail length. Doncha think?
  5. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    Whenever I saw it's face it was very yellow. It had a lemony hue - not vague but quite yellow. The thing about the song that got me zeroing in was the reference to it sounding 'sad'. That was spot on. It was 2 notes but almost sounding like one. I saw the thing clearly about 7 times over 5...
  6. Tavish

    Skulking bird in France

    As for it's breast - I just didn't see any spots and I think I would have recognised the general jizz of a thrush. Seemed a bit smaller than that too.
  7. Tavish

    Skulking bird in France

    Aha! Big clue. It made a very panicky noise like that about 6 times as it scrambled up to the perch. It stayed there silent for about 20 seconds but I didn't have the camera to hand - hence the single terrible shot. Then it melted away ...
  8. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    Thanks guys - I dug deep into the Collins and came up right for once ... May allow myself a tick!
  9. Tavish

    Skulking bird in France

    Sorry about the photo ... ... if it could have only waited a second or two longer! Didn't strike me as a thrush though I see what you mean. On the full megapixels version the legs are grey, not pinky.
  10. Tavish

    Simply sparrows?

    Just as I feared! Many thanks. Maybe I just forgot what large groups of them looked like. Used to be common when I was a kid. Not so much now.
  11. Tavish

    Wood Warbler?

    There is a bird in this picture. You are looking up at its tail end. It was flitting about high in a tree in NW France last week. It had a definite yellow look to it and was forever on the move - mouse like. It made a pheee-eep sound. I am leaning towards Wood Warbler. It was very small. Any...
  12. Tavish

    Simply sparrows?

    I watched a group of 30 of these moving lightning fast and 'as one' around a field then into a hedge then off again. Maybe they are just sparrows but the way they moved suggested something else. I thought I say a bit of yellow here and there. Sorry folks - these are my dodgy pics from Normandy...
  13. Tavish

    Skulking bird in France

    Hi there, Sorry for terrible picture. I accidentally put this bird up from dense undergrowth next to a stream in NW France for a few seconds last week. I was thinking Garden Warbler but it had a bit of size to it - more Starling than Sparrow if you know what I mean. Nightingale maybe? Any...
  14. Tavish

    Unidentifiable? Anglesey, UK

    thanx guys I'm going to go with the Mipit cos it was flying up then floating down parachute style. I am confident enough with that and the comments above.
  15. Tavish

    id please north norfolk

    I love that photo!
  16. Tavish

    Unidentifiable? Anglesey, UK

    This has got me back to the books. When I say it refused to hover ... I kept thinking it was/would but it would just stretch its wings and kind of float down a bit. I'm reading this as behaviour that distinguishes in favour of Meadow Pipit. The ticking pen is in my hand. May I?
  17. Tavish

    Beach birds, Hoylake, UK

    Many thanks - My usual experience of these is sitting on a post or rock teasing me by possibly being Shags.
  18. Tavish

    Unidentifiable? Anglesey, UK

    Deffo wasn't a wagtail - one of the few birds I know the jizz of! I was thinking Nightingale but does Anglesey rule that out?? My first thought was Skylark but it refused to hover!
  19. Tavish

    Razorbill? Anglesey, UK

    Wahey! Thanks for that my friend.
  20. Tavish

    Unidentifiable? Anglesey, UK

    Hello! This was driving me mad on Sunday. Kept shooting up out of the low vegetation near South Stacks then perching on the wire just long enough for me to nearly get a look before diving back in and popping up again a minute later. Very annoying. Brown and a bit smaller than a starling. Some...
  21. Tavish

    Goose - Anglesey, UK

    I'm thinking Greylag but one or two others in the book (eg White Fronted) have me worried.
  22. Tavish

    Razorbill? Anglesey, UK

    I was at South Stacks at the weekends with bino's and a camera. I saw thousands of Guillemot but couldn't quite nail A Razorbill for ticking! It was very crowded and I didn't have long and I was with the family and I couldn't get to the in-house scope ... Of my photo's I feel most confident...
  23. Tavish

    Beach birds, Hoylake, UK

    Hello - So what were these birds happily marching along in the edge of the waves about half a mile offshore today? The shot is on full zoom I'm afraid. They were goose sized and I was thinking Brent Geese - or maybe Cormorants? Or maybe something else. They had vivid white patches on the side...
  24. Tavish

    Sanderling?

    In Silvers' defence I have seen both Sanderling and Pied Wagtail engaged in very similar behaviour on Hoylake beach - running in and out at the edge of the waves on the sand. Admittedly they don't look alike especially if you can spot a Wagtail with your eyes closed which many of us can. One of...
  25. Tavish

    Brown bird through a hedge UK (Dunnock)

    Thanks Nick. It's going to move me on I'm sure. Especially with you guys to assist with the id's!
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