Bad picture challenge (1 Viewer)

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Dawsy

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• Oct 20, 2005

• #1

There don't seem to have been many of these quizzes lately so I thought I'd post a few of my very worst photos as an ID challenge (actually I have worse but they'd be lost causes). All but one were taken in the UK but I won't say which one or where unless it proves too tricky.
Michael

 

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Ghostly Vision

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2005

• #2

Go on then I'll have a go;

1 Willow warbler
2 Twite
3 !!!! Tufted duck
4 Non UK - Alpine chough
5 Hobby

GV

 

Dave B

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2005

• #3

Dawsy said:

There don't seem to have been many of these quizzes lately so I thought I'd post a few of my very worst photos as an ID challenge (actually I have worse but they'd be lost causes). All but one were taken in the UK but I won't say which one or where unless it proves too tricky.
Michael

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I'll start the ball rolling this time! (or would have done had not GV beat me to it)

1. Willow Warbler
2. Twite
3. Pied-billed Grebe (I'm guessing this is the one you didn't take in the UK)
4. Possibly early Monet - or else a White-tailed Eagle taken through the bathroom window
5. It's a Peregrine - no a Kestrel - or an Elder bush - wait, wrong thread. It's a Hobby

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Oct 20, 2005

• #4

1. Willow Warbler
2. Twite
3. Dipper
4. White-tailed Eagle
5. Nightjar

 

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jonny h

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2005

• #5

have to agree with G.V here apart from little grebe rather than tufty ?

 

Dave B

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2005

• #6

jonny h said:

have to agree with G.V here apart from little grebe rather than tufty ?

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Reckon you've nailed it Johnny.

 

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Dawsy

Well-known member

• Oct 21, 2005

• #7

There's been a correct guess for all but no 3 which is the none UK (US) one (I think it looks most like a rubber chicken). The white-tailed eagle wasn't through a window but was my very first attempt at digiscoping when I hadn't got a proper adapter and was using a really crappy tripod in a gale

 

Dave B

Well-known member

• Oct 21, 2005

• #8

#3 must be a grebe or a coot with those legs, so if it isn't Pied-billed, I'll try Least Grebe?

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Oct 21, 2005

• #9

logically, it must be:
1. Willow Warbler
2. Twite
3. Pied-billed Grebe
4. White-tailed Eagle
5. Nightjar

(sorry, Andrew, if this is correct, but: a DIPPER usually flaps its wings under water and doesn't paddle with legs!)

 

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Ghostly Vision

Well-known member

• Oct 22, 2005

• #10

The bill on three is definitely that of a duck, and seems to have a dark nail? Or am I imagining things?

Perhaps you could give individual scores Dawsy?

Hey - and they're not guesses, they're educated assimilations of the visible features!

GV

 

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Dawsy

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #11

Actually everyone who's guessed has got 3 right (I think, not sure what Dave B's guess for no 5 was in the end) and still no correect answer for no 3.
Michael

 

Dave B

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #12

Dawsy said:

Actually everyone who's guessed has got 3 right (I think, not sure what Dave B's guess for no 5 was in the end) and still no correect answer for no 3.
Michael

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My answer for #5 was Hobby. Did you say that #3 was taken in US?

Dave

 

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Dawsy

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #13

Dave B said:

My answer for #5 was Hobby. Did you say that #3 was taken in US?

Dave

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In that case, to rather give the game away, you got 4 right. Rather better than I would have done on the same pics I suspect. No 3 was indeed taken in the US.

Michael

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Oct 24, 2005

• #14

now i see the evidence of white in wings for:
least grebe!
hence combination must be:

1 willow w.
2 twite
3 least grebe
4 white-tailed eagle
5 hobby

?

 

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Dawsy

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #15

No not a least grebe though I did think it might be for one optomistic second.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Oct 24, 2005

• #16

Black-necked (Eared) Grebe?

 

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Dawsy

Well-known member

• Oct 24, 2005

• #17

Andrew Whitehouse said:

Black-necked (Eared) Grebe?

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Spot on.
So for completeness:
1. Willow warbler
2. Twite
3. Black-necked/ Eared Grebe
4. White-tailed eagle
5. Hobby