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Who knows their bits? (1 Viewer)

Jos Stratford

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A bit genius? Cropped to tax, not too tricky (bar one perhaps) ...no clues as to where at this stage
 

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1)Looks like a Kite.I'll try Red Kite
2)Crane (I thought of Great Egret but toes look long...Wicked claws too...*ouch*)
3)I think terns have webbed legs and have forked tails(most do).This one dosen't seem to do.I'll say white Feral Pigeon.
4)I'll agree with Blackstart and say Stork
 
(midsize raptor) marsh harrier, (large scolopacidae) blackwit, (commic tern) common tern, white stork.
 
So far,
photo no.1 - no one has correctly named
photo no.2 - out of the two guesses, one is correct
photo no.3 - no one has correctly named
photo no.4 - congratulations to Blackstart, Dimitris and Jurek - it is a White Stork. Attached is the full size photo, taken this week.
 

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Go on then I'll make a parus of myself (no books to check - that's my excuse)

1 Lesser Spotted eagle
2 Black tailed godwit
3 Black tern
4 Hybrid domestic duck?? (Or white stork)

GV
 
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moose1991 said:
Maybe Jos is out Birding,wish I was.


Ha, got it one, out birding I was! Light and sunny til well past 10 p.m. these days and it sure makes up for the many months of snow and minus 25! Few Phalaropes, calling Corncrakes and etc this weekend,

So, for the answers ...

Not all that's big in the wing is a raptor - photo one was the one that caught most people out, so congratulations to Blackstart and Reader in identifying this one, snapped on my land, it is one of the Cranes breeding on my land!

All photos taken in the last couple of weeks,

1. Crane
2. Black-tailed Godwit
3. White-winged Black Tern
4. White Stork
 

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