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Must admit I thought twice but head is too ‘strong’ for Iceland for me. Also, Glauc is a common breeder in Svalbard whereas Iceland is pretty uncommon in the summer months. Happy for one of the gull experts on here to tell my if I’m wrong though (I generally only see one or two ‘white wing’...

Glaucous gull - fairly common breeding species on Svalbard. Bulky, large gull with white wing tips.

Brown creeper

That was my thought

Agree, Mistle Thrush

Marsh Harrier

I suspect this is a Greylag/Chinese Goose hybrid

Marsh harrier was my first impression but the image is really impossible to identify with any confidence

That’s partly why I said ‘probably Carrion Crow’ the head is hard to make out and does look quite heavy but the difference in size between the two birds seems too great for it to be a Raven.

Didn’t mean my post to sound like a criticism - I was simply highlighting the difficulties of looking at single shots compared to a moving bird.

Corvid - most probably Carrion Crow. The apparent shape of the right wing is an artefact of the angle the photo is taken at. I can’t help feeling that this image exemplifies the problem with trying to identify birds ‘after the event’ from a photograph when simply watching it ‘live’ for a few...

Black redstart for me too

That makes three of us. 1 Kestrel; 2&3 Sparrowhawk

Birds has evidently been a number of guillemots blown inland recently. I found one dead on the road near Balmoral this afternoon.

Collins Guide is available as an app. Includes bird songs and calls and is periodically updated - can’t remember when I last used the paper version

Description could be a young gannet

Habitat is a big clue here as well. Yellowhammer is a bird of open farmland - though they do come into gardens in hard weather. Siskin is a woodland bird.

I’d have thought that this was Spanish Sparrow - P. h. transcaspicus listed as the subspecies breeding in Cyprus https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Spanish_Sparrow

Thank you for your reply. Taimyrensis Heuglin's Gull certainly matches my notes on size and colour. Hard to tell whether their winter range would be that far south (and whether they would be that far inland). Slaty-backed may be too dark (I had considered this species at the time).

Thanks Jeff. I'd pretty much ignored the MacKinnon maps and was working from Brazil Birds of East Asia which has Chestnut Bulbul in Fujian only. Silver-throated Tit was a great little bird but caused me some brain ache since it is mentioned in the text in Brazil but not illustrated. It was quite...