Bird Mastermind number 12 (1 Viewer)

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Nov 17, 2003

• #21

Praise the Lord!

 

Jasonbirder

Jason-occasional-twitcher

• Nov 17, 2003

• #22

1. Spectacled Warbler (sticking to my guns in the face of everyone elses knowledge!)
4. Isabelline Shrike - don`t ask which form (toyed with the idea of Blaearic Woodchat Shrike but tail does seem too rufous and contrasting)
5. Want to say Blyths Reed Warbler - but not happy with eye ring & pale lower mandible - but primaries look too bunched for Marsh Warbler - will think again on this one.

 

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Jasonbirder

Jason-occasional-twitcher

• Nov 17, 2003

• #23

OK getting close to my bedtime yawn! So i`ll say:
1. Spectacled Warbler (have a hunch the photo is too old to support this - but thats cheating!)
2. Common Tern
3. Thrush Nightingale
4. Isabelline Shrike
5. Blyths Reed Warbler

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 17, 2003

• #24

No one has beaten two yet... these are proving harder than expected, though 5 is a bit of a lottery

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Nov 17, 2003

• #25

#1 - is the picture defective?

There's nothing on the WPal list with rufous-brown forehead to top of crown, broad plain grey eyestripe angled up to the rear crown, brown cheeks, and three bright orange-red spots on an otherwise blackish-brown wing

Michael

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 17, 2003

• #26

It was taken at sunset, in stong red light..and is showing more contrast/shade than would be normal.

Here it is de-redded a bit and with the contrast turned down

Now the back looks realistic, but the breast has lost all its starling pinkness, which was there in life.

 

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Michael Frankis

conehead

• Nov 17, 2003

• #27

I'll amend 2-5 to:
Arctic Tern
Thrush Nightingale
Red-backed Shrike
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.

Still haven't a clue on #1.

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Nov 17, 2003

• #28

Think I'll try Subalpine Warbler for 1

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 17, 2003

• #29

You have the right genus...

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Nov 17, 2003

• #30

Given that its an old photo, and excluding what others have already mentioned, I'll go for plain ordinary Whitethroat

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 17, 2003

• #31

Comm. whitethroat
Comm. tern
Sprosser
Red-backed Shrike
Olivaceous Warbler

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Nov 17, 2003

• #32

Tim Allwood said:

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Comm. tern
Sprosser
Red-backed Shrike
....

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Hi Tim,

One of those can't be right, 'coz I only got (max.) 2 right with the same set
That's why I changed allegiance to Arctic Tern (as I am more sure of the other two, than I was with the tern)

Michael

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #33

Someone..would be too easy to say who...is up to three now.

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #34

Hi Michael – I didn’t trawl thru the previous answers so missed the more precise nature of your elaeica than my old fashioned pallida and that little mathmatical conundrum :clap: that means one of my birds must be wrong – as long as the initial ID is correct of course (sorry Jane, only joking, lots of vino tinto B B consumed tonight! I must be in deep water after that scouser comment on the HB thread too o ) Guess my Comm Tern is the wrong un.

As Homer Simpson said: ‘if somethings difficult to do then it’s obviously not worth doing’ :h?:
So I’m off to bed. :bounce:
Will try again tomorrow unless u r right Michael

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #35

Its my hand in all but the last bird in the hand... so I got pretty close to them... I'm not perfect, I do make mistakes, but I guarantee the ID of 1 and 3... is correct. 5 caused no end of debate, argument and eventual back tracking.

No one ever did find the Boney's in that gull flock btw! I swear it was there when the camera went off.

 

Pie Face

Well-known member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #36

Spectacled Warbler
Arctic Tern
River Warbler
Red-backed Shrike
Marsh Warbler

Can't stick around, to find out how wrong I am, I'll be late for work.

Mark

 

Joern Lehmhus

Well-known member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #37

Hi , coming in late , did not look at the answers, honestly

I would give you the following for round one
Greater sandplover
Wheatear
gulbilled tern? maybe medgull and a whiskered tern from left to right
(Reminds me of the albufera de valencia where I saw these together this spring...)
Oops-that has a pointed tail-a sandgrouse (Pallas, Ithink)
Black wheatear

Second round
Spectacled warbler? but whats that red on the wing?
common Tern
Thrush nightingale
Isabelline shrike
Acrocephalus, but I dont know which

now I gonna look at your answers-to find out mine are all wrong...LBJ s for me is perhaps like ducks for you , Jane...though you would probably do better, having seen a lot I only dream of.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Nov 18, 2003

• #38

1) Spectacled Warbler
2) Arctic Tern
3) Thrush Nightingale (what's with the white in the tail though?)
4) Red-backed Shrike
5) Reed Warbler

 

Jasonbirder

Jason-occasional-twitcher

• Nov 18, 2003

• #39

I know what you mean about 3. I thought about Pallas` Gropper - but its just not streaky is it!

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 18, 2003

• #40

Tim Allwood said:

: that means one of my birds must be wrong – as long as the initial ID is correct of course (sorry Jane, only joking, lots of vino tinto B B consumed tonight! I must be in deep water after that scouser comment on the HB thread too o ) Guess my Comm Tern is the wrong un.

As Homer Simpson said: ‘if somethings difficult to do then it’s obviously not worth doing’ :h?:
So I’m off to bed. :bounce:
Will try again tomorrow unless u r right Michael

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Even if I have got one wrong... as long as I stick to my guns, your logic will work

Of the last batch, two is the best.