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Old Saturday 2nd June 2012, 18:16   #5276
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Hobby is correct.
I have never seen an Eleonora's Falcon!:(
The next from Axios delta.


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Old Saturday 2nd June 2012, 18:24   #5277
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Curlew Sandpiper.
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Old Saturday 2nd June 2012, 22:43   #5278
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definitely a gorgeous curlew sand! do eleonora's perch on trees a lot?
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Old Tuesday 5th June 2012, 14:35   #5279
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definitely a gorgeous curlew sand! do eleonora's perch on trees a lot?
Sure a Curlew!I have never seen a Eleonora's perching,Lou!
The next pic from Kitrous saltmarshes!
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Old Tuesday 5th June 2012, 15:29   #5280
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Old Tuesday 5th June 2012, 15:48   #5281
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with those broad reddish underwings i'd say yes to galerida cristata.
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 15:57   #5282
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with those broad reddish underwings i'd say yes to galerida cristata.
This pic will change your mind!
In the field I thought also Gal cri but....
It is the same bird!
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 16:24   #5283
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i still think it is unless you took the pic in spain...
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 17:19   #5284
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Look in the first pic ,Lou ,this long hindclaw!
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 18:02   #5285
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white outer tail feathers already would have excluded any galerida...

so it's a "crested" skylark, hihi.
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 18:50   #5286
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white outer tail feathers already would have excluded any galerida...

so it's a "crested" skylark, hihi.
It is one,Lou!
The next pic shows only a wing from a.......
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 19:06   #5287
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kentish plover pretending to have a broken wing
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Old Wednesday 6th June 2012, 22:07   #5288
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my feeling is temminck's stint, but not too sure.
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Old Tuesday 19th June 2012, 16:59   #5289
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kentish plover pretending to have a broken wing
That is correct,Lou!
The next Pic is taken from my friend,Christos.
Where is the bird,what is the bird????
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Old Tuesday 19th June 2012, 18:16   #5290
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Aha, I see the gem among the rocks...
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Aha, I see the gem among the rocks...
...looks like a male Rock Thrush to me.
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Old Friday 22nd June 2012, 21:54   #5292
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Old Saturday 28th July 2012, 19:05   #5293
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Out of the two suggestions so far I would go for Wallcreeper but if it's neither, I seem to be imagining a hawkish eye (may just be dark depths between some feathers on the neck)
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Old Thursday 2nd August 2012, 10:43   #5294
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clearly a tichodroma
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Old Friday 24th August 2012, 05:50   #5295
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Wallcreeper indeed!
The next from my local patsh few days ago....
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female/juvenile Cirl Bunting?
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Old Friday 24th August 2012, 11:31   #5297
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Old Saturday 25th August 2012, 10:25   #5298
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Old Tuesday 28th August 2012, 14:24   #5300
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serin?
Sure,Nick,a Serin!
This one from my last obsevation...
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