[Dawsy]

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

[Ghostly Vision]

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]

Originally Posted by Dawsy

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

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]

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

[jonny h]

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

[Dave B]

Originally Posted by jonny h

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

Reckon you've nailed it Johnny.

[Dawsy]

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]

#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]

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!)

[Ghostly Vision]

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

[Dawsy]

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]

Originally Posted by Dawsy

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

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

Dave

[Dawsy]

Originally Posted by Dave B

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

Dave

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]

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

?

[Dawsy]

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

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Black-necked (Eared) Grebe?

[Dawsy]

Originally Posted by Andrew Whitehouse

Black-necked (Eared) Grebe?

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