some birds, ethiopian highlands (1 Viewer)

[Ragnarok]

Thanks everybody!

Here is another 3 pictures (hopefully better).

31) juvenile tawny eagle?

32) this looked like a scaly-throated honeyguide, but since it was moulting heavily i would like to hear some other opinions.

33) is this a juvenile pin-tailed whydah? there is a lot of these small brown granivores around...


TZ, you should see it as a compliment that I think people on this forum are so good, they even manage to identify my very bad pictures ive been surprised more often!

 

[TZBirder]

(1) First impression (often wrong!) is Wahlbergs with that nice crest. But I don't see a tail, and think I'm missing something. Will come back in a morning slot some time...
(2) Agreed
(3) Probably not, do you get steel-blue there? Or is it simply a black-faced/cheeked waxbill (which the former mimics?). Again, need to actually put my thnking cap on. Any more pics of this?

 

[Ragnarok]

Hey TZ,

One thing I could see about the Eagle was that it was raining at the time I took the picture, so possibly it had his feathers like this due to the rain.

I also added the 3 other pictures we took of the small brown bird and I can give you some measurements:
wing 64mm, tail 39mm and 11.2 gram

Does this help putting on the thinking cap?

 

[Ragnarok]

anybody else has thoughts on the eagle and the small bird?

 

[Tib78]

The eagle is actually a juvenile Western Banded Snake-eagle, the wings and the tail are too short for Wahlberg's but I must admit that the angle of capture does not do justice to the big Circaetus head.
Compare with the juvenile WBSE in post # 22: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=215804&highlight=tib

The small bird is a juvenile Vidua (so either whydah or indigobird). I don't think you can ID it up to species level, even in the hand, let alone from pictures...