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  1. MTem

    UK Chiffchaff - tristis?

    I have attached some photos of a chiffchaff I took last Friday near a sewage works in Surrey. This place seems to be a bit of a favourite wintering spot as there were a minimum of 20 Chiffchaffs in the trees and brambles around the works. This bird stood out even on first glimpse - I initially...
  2. MTem

    Brent goose with leuscism or another hybrid? UK

    Saw this Brent goose todaywith a few hundred of it's pals at Farlington marsh, Hampshire, UK while vainly searching for the Stilt Sandpiper. I suspect it's a pure bred Brent but with some leucism, but as I've never seen it before nor heard of it in Brents I thought I'd ask if anyone...
  3. MTem

    First Bramblings of the year

    Had my first Bramblings on the feeders in the garden for this year - 2 males and a female with the usual Chaffinch 'hosts'. On the Surrey/Sussex border near Gatwick. Very early - I don't usually see any until late Jan/Feb. Linked to the Hawfinch influx?? Mick
  4. MTem

    House sparrows - some good news

    Hardly a statistically significant sample, but it gladdens me anyway to report another peak count for my local House Sparrow flock. Today I counted 42. They seem to be very sedentary moving daily between the two houses (one mine) at our end of a 100m gravel rural lane to the two cottages at the...
  5. MTem

    A couple from East Sussex, UK

    A visit to Cuckmere on the south coast this morning and a couple to ID please. Photos 1/2/3 - same bird. With my pathetic track record separating Rock and Water pipits I would like judgement on this bird. Looked much lighter, brighter, paler-faced and less heavily marked than the Rock pipits...
  6. MTem

    A Darter and a beetle for ID please - UK

    The Darter is from my pond in SE England, taken yesterday. Lots of Common Darters around but the yellow cast to the wings and the abdomen colour and pattern are unlike any others around ..... so just to be sure it's nothing else can someone more experienced determine please. The mating beetles...
  7. MTem

    Anyone know this Oystercatcher scheme please?

    I have logged this Oik with Euring, but the CR-birding website doesn't show any schemes that match, so if anyone knows the scheme and has a contact I'll send it straight to them Right tarsus - White colour ring with 2 black letters (PY) Left tarsus - Red above green Possibly a metal ring on...
  8. MTem

    What Newt? Surrey, UK Aug 17

    Is this an Alpine Newt? (photo 1 & 2) I found it when moving a pile of stacked wood partitions in my field quite close to two ponds - one (ancient) in mixed woodland the other (new in 2016) out in the field. The new one held many (tens) of newt 'tadpoles' (photo 3 & 4) that I tentatively ID'd...
  9. MTem

    Warbler ID - Cheshire UK

    I have been given permission by the OP on the Birding UK & Ireland forum to post the thread here for an ID. That forum is much less widely used, and not many have experience of European or rarer species. http://www.birding.uk.com/forum/what-bird/64106-stumped.html The embedded photos of the...
  10. MTem

    Dordogne, France - interesting insects

    A few interesting insects that took my eye while out looking for birds and butterflies in July/Aug. Any help appreciated as I really have no idea at all! 1&2 are the same insect Mick
  11. MTem

    Fritillaries - 4

    More from the Dordogne in July/Aug. This one I believe is a Heath Fritillary. Both photos of same one. Mick
  12. MTem

    Dordogne Blues -2

    More blues (and an Argus?) 1. Brown Argus 2 & 3. Chalkhill Blue F (same one) 4. Adonis Blue? 5. ??
  13. MTem

    Dordogne Blues - 1

    More from my recent Dordogne/Correze visit. Blues this time. Any help appreciated and any pointers to how you decided. In most cases I couldn't get a upper wing photo, they kept the wings resolutely closed. And in the cases I did get an upper wing they buttered off before I could get an...
  14. MTem

    Fritillaries 3 - Dordogne

    And more undersides 1. Provencal? 2. Meadow 3. Knapweed 4. Knapweed 5. Lesser Spotted? Mick
  15. MTem

    Fritillaries 2 - Dordogne

    A few undersides to see if I've got them right. Some I'm pretty sure of after Collins and the fritillariesID website, but there is quite some variation within the same species it seems, especially as they become older/bleached? 1. Weaver's 2. Meadow 3. Meadow 4. Glanville 5. Spotted Mick
  16. MTem

    Fritillaries 1 - Dordogne, France

    On the assumption I have the first three right as Knapweed fritillaries, I make the last 2 Provencal but that's out of range for Collins?? Mick
  17. MTem

    And moe or more from the Dordogne - 4

    More before the fritillaries .... 1&2. This must be a moth as I can't find anything like it in Collins ... 3 Purple Hairstreak female 4&5. Mallow skippers? Edit wrong photo for #4, sorry Mick
  18. MTem

    Moe from the Dordogne - 3

    A few more I'm not familiar with so to be sure (and before we get to the fritillaries!) My estimates using Collins ... 1 & 2 Chalk-hill blue - 2 different males. 3 & 4 A raggy male Long-tailed blue (with no tail) 5. A male Sooty Copper Mick
  19. MTem

    More Dordogne to confirm please - 2

    I think the following are: 1/2 Southern White Admiral - two different ones - assume males? 3/4 - Is this a Pale Clouded Yellow (or Berger's?) or one of those helice form of Clouded yellow? I have looked at lots of photos and still think this is one of the former two, but I am a novice here so...
  20. MTem

    Dordogne, France - some rarer ones to confirm please - 1

    After a nice long break at our regular spot on the Dordogne/Correze border near Brive, I have a few potentially rarer butterflies to confirm as I've posted them on the fauna-aquitaine website that I use for my bird sightings in the area. So I believe the following are: 1/2. Duke of Burgundy...
  21. MTem

    UK butterfly and moth ID please

    Another couple for some advice and confirmation from my field/pond area. First can only be a Cinnabar moth, but the upper wing pattern is different from that in my book and the online images I get from a Google search. Is this just a variant? Second/Third (same fly) - there are lots of Small...
  22. MTem

    More dragonflies - UK

    A couple more please. I think.. 1. Male Common Darter 2. Male Southern Hawker - only photo I got before it resumed its patrol. Thanks Mick
  23. MTem

    More dragonflies and damselflies - UK

    Thanks in advance for your patience as there will be a few more of these. I have created a fairly large pond in my field next to an old overgrown woodland one, and am trying to accurately catalogue what arrives, when etc., so I want to be sure of my ID's - as although birding for 50 years I'm...
  24. MTem

    Is this a Variable damselfly? UK

    Taken last month on Surrey/Sussex border. New pond Mick
  25. MTem

    Two UK butterflies for confirmation plse

    Taken in past two days, SE England Pretty sure the first two are male Silver-washed fritillaries. First on brambles and second on a dead branch in a sunny woodland pond, different butterflies. Can enough be seen to ID the third (last two photos same butterfly) - I'm guessing Purple Hairstreak...
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