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KenM

KenM

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Flushed this bird 20th August on Whitehall Plain, Epping Forest (unwittingly), along with a Dunnock and Com.Whitethroat, the latter two disappeared into yonder bush, managed to get this single shot off, before it too disappeared, have been stumped ever since...?

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Thanks guys...I agree first impressions Wryneck but...I believe that the undertail should be banded, and that the little spotting to the lower flanks should be horizontal rather than vertical. Unfortunately I never saw it through the bins, a nano-second decision had to be made camera or bins, thus I opted for the former, and from what I saw through the viewfinder, I was uncertain as to whether I'd even got it in focus or not....dunno?
 
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Sorry to poop on the party, but that looks like a passerine, not a Wryneck. The body structure is wrong, in particular the tarsus too long and probably too slender, and not showing Wryneck's long, zygodactyl (2 forward, 2 back) toes. It also doesn't have a Wryneck's thick, tapered under-tail coverts.

Compare this :king:
 

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I thought the tarsus too long too. The trace of head pattern suggests Wryneck but I think its the leaves..? I thought Meadow Pipit but its tough!
 
If you take away the apparent head pattern, which I am not convinced is reality, the bird has little to suggest Wryneck. As for actual identity, I'd go as far as passerine, sp.
 
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Richard Prior said:
Did you get an idea of its size, Ken?
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Not really Richard, other than a c5"?. saw it too late! With hindsight I should have opted for the bins, that would probably have given me more information. Interesting exercise though, showing how the camera lens/lighting artefact can suggestively mislead. I know the site very well, and visit almost daily, Linnet would be a site rarity! Reed Bunting are generally late Sep/Oct visitors as are Mipits. Never got an ''ipit'' feel to it, flight was perhaps faster rather than leisurely, think I'll have to file it under my very thin ;)...Dunno file.
 
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