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Something quite difficult. Identify the victim (Cyprus) (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter stylgeo
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Thanks everybody for your time. I haven't spotted any little ringed plovers in the area and based on recent sightings (found here) there haven't been any.
On the other hand, there are quite a lot of common snipe in the area.
Is it possible that this might be a young chicken? The toes look a bit slim in this photo though... I was walking in the area and it just flew over me, but I could see some farms in the distance. However, farmers always use a covered coop because there are a lot of BOP and foxes in the area.
On the other hand, there are quite a lot of common snipe in the area.
Is it possible that this might be a young chicken? The toes look a bit slim in this photo though... I was walking in the area and it just flew over me, but I could see some farms in the distance. However, farmers always use a covered coop because there are a lot of BOP and foxes in the area.
eddy the eagle
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Hi Stylgeo,I can't identify the prey species but I would like to commend your photograph can you tell us they camera,lens and settings used.Cheers ...Eddy
Thanks Eddy, I'm glad you like the photo!
Equipment used:
Canon EOS 7D
Sigma 500mm F/4.5 prime
Kenko 1.4x TC
Handheld
Settings
Manual
f/7.1
1/500 sec shutter speed
ISO 640
AI Servo
RAW
The EXIF Info is intact
Thanks again Peter. We do get Common Sandpipers this time of the year as they are winter visitors. I haven't spotted any that day, but I can't say I was really looking for them to be honest.
Equipment used:
Canon EOS 7D
Sigma 500mm F/4.5 prime
Kenko 1.4x TC
Handheld
Settings
Manual
f/7.1
1/500 sec shutter speed
ISO 640
AI Servo
RAW
The EXIF Info is intact
Thanks again Peter. We do get Common Sandpipers this time of the year as they are winter visitors. I haven't spotted any that day, but I can't say I was really looking for them to be honest.
Thank you for your compliments, I'm quite pleased with this tbh
.No mention of Spotted Sandpipers in the grapevine, nor in the 'recent sightings' blogs and websites I visit. Are the feet too yellow for a common then?
it is too yellow for Common, too yellow for almost anything, this one would match: http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=328234
and a great picture indeed
and a great picture indeed
UPDATE
I was going through photos if I could find another one. Unfortunately I only grabbed 4 photos of that bird before it flew away, 2 of which are exactly the same, and 2 I have missed the focus.
However, I did take a couple of grab shots from a more distant bird, carrying some twigs. They flew out of the same spot, and I haven't really paid attention to that shots because it was rather far away, it was facing a bit away from me, and there were some telephone poles in the background, ruining the shot. However, because marsh harriers are migrants and winter visitors here, and don't nest in Cyprus as far as I know, I was curious on why it was carrying the twigs. Upon closer inspection, there was a foot sticking out of the twigs. They must have been feasting on the same bird when something (most probably me) must have scared them and they grabbed what they could and flew away.
Does this new photo help in any way?
I was going through photos if I could find another one. Unfortunately I only grabbed 4 photos of that bird before it flew away, 2 of which are exactly the same, and 2 I have missed the focus.
However, I did take a couple of grab shots from a more distant bird, carrying some twigs. They flew out of the same spot, and I haven't really paid attention to that shots because it was rather far away, it was facing a bit away from me, and there were some telephone poles in the background, ruining the shot. However, because marsh harriers are migrants and winter visitors here, and don't nest in Cyprus as far as I know, I was curious on why it was carrying the twigs. Upon closer inspection, there was a foot sticking out of the twigs
. They must have been feasting on the same bird when something (most probably me) must have scared them and they grabbed what they could and flew away.Does this new photo help in any way?
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Larry Lade
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I thought it might have been the leg/foot of a Water Rail?
Larry Lade
Moderator
I not sure about the size of differences involved here, but the photo with the foot/twigs/vegetation might indicate that the bird taken was in place where there would be twigs/vegetation (rail) rather than places with less material of that sort (plovers/sandpipers/etc.) Just "my two cents worth"!
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