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Mystery Bird warmup (1 Viewer)

Brian Stone

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These poor digipics are rather better quality than the video grabs to come and shouldn't prove too problematic. The quality will decline I promise ;). All will be Western Palearctic birds.
 

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Hmm 'nice' pics Brian. I'm tempted to let Jane have first crack but mine will be mostly wrong anyway:

1) Least Sandpiper
2) Long-billed Dowitcher
3) Garganey
4) Black-necked Grebe
5) Err well there's 4 Canada Geese and a Tufted Duck. Oh you want the one circled? Well maybe a rather lost Little Auk.
 
# 3 is a wildfowler's plastic decoy. The ring on the back for lifting it out of the water shows all too clearly :-O
Probably modelled on Garganey though.

#1 I'd go for Ruff
#2 don't know.
#4 B-n Grebe a.k.a. Eared Grebe
#5 storn-driven Manx Shearwater?

Michael
 
Fear what's to come if this is the warmup!!
1. Curlew Sandpiper
2. White-rumped Sandpiper?
3. Garganey
4. juv Little Grebe
5. ??
 
3 named correctly so far. Best is 2 right. Clearly harder than I thought it would be and the duck is a real one. It got off the water all by itself. The loop is an odd bit of weed I think. Keep going.
 
Wow! Didn't even break into a sweat eh Jane? All these were photographed recently around Peterborough and the Manx appeared on a gravel pit in calm, sunny weather. There were a couple of others inland on the same day (17 Sept).

The video grabs start later today.
 
The mantle fringes and bill length gave the CS up. My first guess for bird one was Long-toed Stint....! Then I realised it was too big... was the Pec and adult?
 
Jane Turner said:
Is that a skit a my advancing years?

I am sure it was more a reference to us being being in a kindergarten compared to your university of ID skills. o:)

There will be a short delay getting more ID pics sorted out as my lunchtime was taken up with this little beauty. Very late for 'round here and extremely confiding.
:t:
 

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I'd say so.. Racial ID might be interesting though.... I'm supposed to be working...but might be attempting a wingformula instead!
 
Jane Turner said:
I'd say so.. Racial ID might be interesting though.... I'm supposed to be working...but might be attempting a wingformula instead!

Yes, we immediately started fretting about race. Ought to start a new thread for this really. Don't know if another pic might help. (Also working hard! :gn: )
 

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Not checked the wing formula, but this bird certainly looks rather brownish without much in the way of a dark mask . . .

Thoughts of another minula? - one was ringed in Yorks a week or two ago (and still there) . .
 
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