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Not a great photo but a very difficult bird to find. This one was taken from the back of a moving truck!

Very tiny birds but so sweet. These are endemic and are the only ones found around the equator. . In the last 30 years its population has decreased by 50%, to just over 1000, it is an endangered species. The 1982 and 1997 El Ninos were the main problem.

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Thanks for the help. I wasn't thinking juveniles at all! There was a pair, which made me think male, female. I managed to get a dozen good shots through my window, they were very cooperative. They're are first for me, I've seen adults before but not the youngsters. Nice to know they bred...

Is this a meadow pipit? I thought it was but the beak seems more bunting-like now! It's got the long back claw so it must be a meadow pipit?

Tanny: I stand to be corrected but I thought a long mouse was a weasel (and I have seen them about too) and a long rat was a stoat. I agree the tail is odd, I thought perhaps it was a youngster. Can anyone put me right?

Greenfinch Great tit bluetit

Yesterday there were about a dozen garden birds alarming at a stoat. I've posted a photo in the gallery showing a bluetit watching the predator. It was so interesting to watch. Most of the birds were sitting in the tree above the animal. Some were quite daring and got quite close to it. I...

Three weeks ago I discovered one egg in the swallow nest. A week later, still one egg. Yesterday it hatched! It takes two weeks for the baby to emerge, so the egg probably wasn't incubated for the first week. Perhaps the pair were trying to produce more eggs? We've had loads of swallows...

Top left is a bluetit watching a stoat! In fact there were about a dozen birds (great tits, wrens, a robin and a chiffchaff) in the tree watching and alarming at the stoat. Some were babies, probably learning to avoid this predator! It was really interesting to watch.

Super photo, my favourite birds.

Medium sized night bird well camourflaged, wide bill, weak legs and small feet.