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Bird Mastermind round 9 (1 Viewer)

That would be correct!

1. Is Short-toed Eagle... in Greece
2. Is Whinchat taken in Merseyside
3. Is Crag Martin in Northern Spain. I was looking for a Wallcreeper at the time
4. Is a Chiffchaff, a possible tristis

and 5

Is a Desert Warbler, though not the Meols one. This was at Flamborough. I seem to get followed around by Desert Warblers. I've seen three and not twitched any. The Meols bird was a 2 minute bike ride from my home. I saw it every day, fed it mealworms and had it land on me a few times. So a bonus coconut Michael F for that one! One to Harry for getting three in his first go.
 
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Oops, I see I made a mistake , I wrote cliff swallow, meaning this brown swallow (Ptyonoprogne rupestris),nesting in rocks and sometimeson buildings in southern europe and the alpes.

But when I looked at your answer and the answers of the others, Jane, I saw that the species is called crag martin and cliff swallow seemed to be something different.
I looked it up; a north american, Hirundo pyrrhonota. I do not have much knowledge of the nearctic birds and could not have thought of that species, because I didn´t know it.

I meant the crag martin, but perhaps I shouldn´t get full points here?
Well, never mind , I will have look at the next.
By the way, was I right about the tree?


I looked this up in the
 
Here is the Meols DW. Grainy old pic...but a fantastic bird. I saw it every morning before school! Eee them were the days...
 

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