Mystery birds (4 Viewers)

[HH75]

Hi all,
Here are a few of my own miserable efforts.I'm looking for the preening bird in the top photo in the first block.
Harry H

 

[HH75]

Help,I can't get the pics up!!
Harry H

Hi all,
Here are a few of my own miserable efforts.I'm looking for the preening bird in the top photo in the first block.
Harry H

 

[robinm]

Hi all,
Here are a few of my own miserable efforts.I'm looking for the preening bird in the top photo in the first block.
Harry H

Try this and this

Actually it still doesn't work - I don't think you can link to something in the Yahoo mail system as you need to supply a user name and password.

 

[Jane Turner]

You are going to have to upload them here Harry.

 

[digi-birder]

Help,I can't get the pics up!!
Harry H

Hi Harry,

You click on Manage Attachments in the area below your text entry box and then browse for the image you want to upload. Once the file appears in the list click All Done.

 

[HH75]

Hi all,
This should work.
Harry H

 

[Grousemore]

I think Jane should have first shot at these!

 

[digi-birder]

Good luck, is all I can say!

 

[CJW]

I can see a Great Shearwater, but that is the only one I'm even thinking about having a guess at.

 

[Jasonbirder]

Well I can guess anything as I haven`t a clue!
Perhaps
1. Goldeneye (left) & Gulls including Greater Black-backed (right)???
2.Guillemot???
3. Can barely see a bird in that one! Kestrel???

4. Herring Gull???

 

[HH75]

Hi all,
Firstly,apologies for having scanned the first three as a block:the initial photographs are poor enough without being sized down as well!
Clue:all of the birds were photographed in Co.Cork.The preening bird in Photo 1(top)is the one that I'm looking for.
No-one has more than one right so far....
Harry H

 

[peteh]

4. glaucous gull?

 

[Jane Turner]

I'm with CJW, I can only see one bird in the left hand pics and that looks to be Great Shearwater.

The gull appears to have a shedload of white in its mirrors on the right wing, but also some black. I've seen hybrid Glauc/Herrring look like that. If the upperparts were darker I'd have a go for a northern argentatus Herring Gull (pseudo omissus) but it looks pale mantled, so I'll stick at hybrid glauc for now.

I'm going to have to play with the images as see if I can see any birds!

 

[Jane Turner]

Ok, assuming the left hand bird in the top shot is A GBBG, then the preening bird is a big gull (actually it looks like a dirty juv swan!)

I think it might be an American Herring Gull, 1st winter....

 

[HH75]

Hi all,
Still nobody with more than one right!The bird in the bottom photo of the first block(Photo 3)is to the left of the white plastic bag....
The preening bird in Photo 1 is a gull.
Harry H

 

[Jane Turner]

Is the bird in front of the ship a Kumlein's then? ....and the preener... well its big and ugly enough to be a glauc, though it looks like a dirty grey plastic bag.

I still can't find a bird in the bottom pic

 

[Jasonbirder]

1. Herring Gull
2. Great Shearwater
3. Kestrel
4. Ring-billed Gull (only because i don`t want to put herring gull twice)

 

[Jane Turner]

I'm a bit of an ignoramus on Irish records... has there been a Thayer's Gull in Cork?

 

[HH75]

Hi all,
STILL only one right!No-one has even come close to the genus of No.3(not surprising,as it's the worst photo!).
No.1 may not be quite as large as some think....
Harry H

 

[HH75]

Hi Jane,
"I'm a bit of an ignoramus on Irish records... has there been a Thayer's Gull in Cork?"
There was a juv.Thayer's in Cork in early 1990,but at the time I wouldn't have even heard of one!I've never seen Thayer's(unless a controversial 2nd-w type large gull at the Lough in 1999 was one,which it may well have been),and all the photos are mine....
Harry H