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Spotted Redshank ? (1 Viewer)
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Ranger James
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I'd say juve redshank.
James
James
dbradnum
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Agree, Redshank
Edit: The bill would be longer on a spotshank, with a slight, but distinct droop at the tip. In general, they are a slightly leggier, more elegant bird. Assuming the photo was taken recently, then Spotted Redshank would also be a paler silvery grey above. (In summer plumage, they are largely jet black - very smart!)
(No help with a photo, but...) the call is also a good feature - spotshank calls a loud "chu-it", totally unlike Redshank.
Edit: The bill would be longer on a spotshank, with a slight, but distinct droop at the tip. In general, they are a slightly leggier, more elegant bird. Assuming the photo was taken recently, then Spotted Redshank would also be a paler silvery grey above. (In summer plumage, they are largely jet black - very smart!)
(No help with a photo, but...) the call is also a good feature - spotshank calls a loud "chu-it", totally unlike Redshank.
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Andrew Rowlands
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Some pointers to illustrate why would be useful guys 
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Andy.
.Andy.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
Andrew Rowlands said:Some pointers to illustrate why would be useful guys
Andy.
Well, it looks exactly like a Redshank and nothing like a Spotted Redshank. The colouring is wrong for Spotted, the bill is not long enough and the supercilium is not long enough or clear enough.
Will that do Andy?
Steve
Andrew Rowlands
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That's just the sort of thing I was hoping to see - thanks Steve :t:!Steve Lister said:
Andy.
PS. Russkie, I've moved this Thread to a more appropriate area of the Forum
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Ranger James
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I was going to be cheeky and say that you were correct in as far as it was a redshank you had spotted. But I thought better of it.
Doh!
It does illustrate a good point though, in that you shouldn't let misguiding english common names influence an indentification. As ever, familiarity and jizz are the birders best friends.
James
Doh!
It does illustrate a good point though, in that you shouldn't let misguiding english common names influence an indentification. As ever, familiarity and jizz are the birders best friends.
James
Hi Susy
You saw birds looking like this on the Axe in winter? How many years ago was that? I'm sorry to sound sceptical, but it does seems very unlikely. During the last 20 years the wader counts on the Axe have never recorded any more than a single Spotted Redshank in winter. Late March is about the earliest you could expect to see one in summer plumage. Conceivably you might get the odd small group going through then on passage, but it the records suggest that none of the regular watchers have ever seen such a thing.
Mind you, having heard tales of what the Plym Estuary was like before the council turned the marshes into a rubbish dump, I could believe almost anything of the old days!
You saw birds looking like this on the Axe in winter? How many years ago was that? I'm sorry to sound sceptical, but it does seems very unlikely. During the last 20 years the wader counts on the Axe have never recorded any more than a single Spotted Redshank in winter. Late March is about the earliest you could expect to see one in summer plumage. Conceivably you might get the odd small group going through then on passage, but it the records suggest that none of the regular watchers have ever seen such a thing.
Mind you, having heard tales of what the Plym Estuary was like before the council turned the marshes into a rubbish dump, I could believe almost anything of the old days!
Ranger James
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Single spotted redshank recorded two days ago from the Seaton Marshes bird hide. Thats the first one for at least 12 months, a very infrequent bird in this neck of the woods.
James
James
Ranger James
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Susy said:
Hi Susy,
Its an interesting sighting, not only because spreaddies are seldom seen on the Axe in recent years, but the colour phase. I know there is a black-tailed godwit on the Exe in the wrong plumage patterns year in, year out. I wonder how common this phenomenon is? Its surprising it hasn't been picked off by a peregrine - in a floack of grey birds a russet bird is very conspicuous, even to human eyes!
James
