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  1. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Er.... some white in the wing (bars ?) and white (external ?) rectrices too like this https://www.oiseaux.net/photos/thierry.becret/capucin.bec-d.argent.2.html#espece Hth
  2. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Hello The behaviour I ,so poorly, described seems to me to be "exotic" and there were several exotics observed even photographed My personal photographer was there for the raptors and so had his/her longest lens hence the poor image thanks to wonderful community here I am now leaning...
  3. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    thanks for this Yes we had found similar images A friend from SE Asia thinks that the behavior is "about right" but doesn't like that we never saw them on the stalks... We had a great day in the rice fields so we can let this on go ;) Having said that ... I spent an other hour on the...
  4. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Great thanksI I wasn't clear inthe first post the bird in the photo is the Waxbill which were present in small numbers but st least they stayed still long enough for us to spot the bill colour etc. We didn't see any distinctive features on the "mystery" bird 😞 Cheers
  5. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Thanks for this I hoped for someone that had a a similar experience👍 afaik there are no Black headed weavers in the area but it is not a busy spot The few locals were saw ( 1km from the site) did not understand what we were up to in the rice fields😎
  6. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Yes Scaly Breasted Munia well established in the Algarve
  7. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    thanks for this but we saw no clear supercillium
  8. buck mulligan

    LBJ Rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão Portugal yesterday

    Hello everyone after a wonderful week in the Algarve... we had great difficulty with a Little Brown Job (LBJ) in the rice fields on the Rio Arade north of Portimão - the rice had been harvested in parts of the field with the remaining stubble much higher than wheat Exact location ...
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