Guess which bird from my terrible photo? (1 Viewer)

[Julie50]

Nope - both close!

 

[BenjiS]

Sedge Warbler?

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Nightingale

 

[Julie50]

I wish Andrew!

Yes BenjiS

 

[Richard D]

Common Whitethroat?

 

[BenjiS]

Yes BenjiS

Lucky Guess

 

[BenjiS]

easy one for everyone

 

[BenjiS]

easy one for everyone

Sorry, just realized I forgot location - Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Benji,

I came back to your picture several times now, and I am still puzzled. I cant match the (appearant) wingtip and the twisted=wrongly positioned tail (???) to any species with confidence.
It seems a smaller bird to me (yes, I was many times wrong on that. And thanks Butty once more!), so I considered a Dipper first.

If this isnt the right answer, I would vote for a Goldeneye.

But I am confident these arent the right answers. As is another Duck, which I considered and will post the name in my next comment.

 

[BenjiS]

Hello Benji,

I came back to your picture several times now, and I am still puzzled. I cant match the (appearant) wingtip and the twisted=wrongly positioned tail (???) to any species with confidence.
It seems a smaller bird to me (yes, I was many times wrong on that. And thanks Butty once more!), so I considered a Dipper first.

If this isnt the right answer, I would vote for a Goldeneye.

But I am confident these arent the right answers. As is another Duck, which I considered and will post the name in my next comment.

Neither of those are right, I have a slightly easier photo though if it is needed

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Benji,

a Ruddy Duck then?

 

[paddyluke]

easy one for everyone

Orca

 

[lou salomon]

cormorant?

 

[BenjiS]

None of the above, (to be fair I've never even seen a dipper or ruddy duck, as much as I would love to!)
As said in my previous post, I do have a slightly more identifiable picture if it is wanted/needed

 

[paddyluke]

easy one for everyone

moorhen?

 

[BenjiS]

moorhen?

thats the one! - told you it was easy😅

 

[maplekong]

Yayyyy! I found someone who also mis-identified birds and takes terrible photos!

 

[Julie50]

There are quite a few of us 😁😁

 

[maplekong]

Is it ok for me to put one photo up? I was scrolling through my camera roll for a photo of a supposed snow bunting, but found a bad photo of some sort of bunting or finch.

 

[maplekong]

Well, here they are- I did say they were bad photos- the first one was taken in my garden in March, the second was taken yesterday at dusk. I can remember some random quirks about the second, it was flying very high, above the typical height of jackdaws, and higher than I've seen most gulls. I zoomed in as far as I could on my phone (it explains the quality). The second thing is than it did not flap once or even change the angle of its wings from when I noticed it to disappearing over the trees. I live in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, beside the Foyle River/Estuary-ish