Mealy redpoll and Lesser redpoll? - Titchwell, UK (1 Viewer)

paulrowe

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #1

Taken today. Grateful for confirmation/correction (1st 4 shots)

http://www.essexbirds.com/titchwell/h3ab124a2#h3ab124a2

Any other correction in the folder appreciated as well.

thanks

Paul

 

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simmojunior

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #2

I think you have labelled the redpolls correctly although with the third bird is impossible to tell from the photo.

 

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Bananafishbones

Incoherently Rambling .....

• Dec 3, 2011

• #3

pic 4 does look like mealy particularly on base colour, would have liked to see different angle to get feel for the jizz and bulk of the bird though.

 

paulrowe

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #4

Thanks Simmo and Dave.

cheers

Paul

 

Sy V

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #5

Paul
That's a nice little gallery you have there. I agree with the Meally (on colouring anyway). Your Brent Geese are correctly labelled too BTW.
However, #27 LRP. I'm not sure; I'm struggling to see the prominent yellow eye ring that one would expect to see. Might they be Ringed Plovers?

 

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knotsbirder

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #6

Sy V said:

Paul
That's a nice little gallery you have there. I agree with the Meally (on colouring anyway). Your Brent Geese are correctly labelled too BTW.
However, #27 LRP. I'm not sure; I'm struggling to see the prominent yellow eye ring that one would expect to see. Might they be Ringed Plovers?

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Look fine to me.

Sam

 

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davids

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #7

photo 22 look like turnstone; 25 are ruff; 21 I thought is a skylark but not sure

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Dec 3, 2011

• #8

21 is a skylark, 22 are turnstones and 25 are ruff as Davids says.

I agree with Sy V that they are ringed plovers in 27, they have a very clear white supercilium.

 

Essex Tern

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #9

Redpolls look ok to me, although can't be 100% sure re lighting conditions etc.

9 looks more like Dunlin, 21 Skylark, 22 Turnstone, 25 Ruff, 28 Bar-Tailed Godwit, and 80 Curlew.

27 I think are standard Ringed - orbital is indistinct, the mask is rounded and the tertials seem short not covering primaries.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #10

Agree that #9 is Dunlin. #10 is Bar-tailed Godwit as is #28.

 

paulrowe

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• Dec 3, 2011

• #11

Very grateful to all for the help - all corrected and a lot learnt.

thanks

Paul