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  1. Jane Turner

    Presumed Iberian Chiffchaff - UK

    At least until disproven by DNA Wide yellow fore super (bridging) moulted secondaries and outer primaries Yellow pectoral band white unstreaked central belly Dark legs, brown feet (boots) and orangy rears to the legs
  2. Jane Turner

    Variability in House Sparrows, or could I have breeding female Spanish Sparrow [NW UK]

    On Apr 25th this year we caught a female Sparrow with a fully developed [in use] brood patch so it was quickly processed. The ringer pointed out that it looked a bit odd - and so I looked and indeed it was - in fact had I not been in NW UK, but in place where Spanish Sparrow was a possibility...
  3. Jane Turner

    Interesting Chiffchaff UK Apr2020

    I caught a bird on April 20th which has some characteristics of Iberian Chiffchaff. Don't think it is one, but it left a deposit that will be sent off for DNA testing.
  4. Jane Turner

    Interesting Great Grey Shrike - Kent UK

    A couple of days ago, this photo of a Great Grey Shrike came through my twitter feed. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIuFMCJW4AAGlg0?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 It looked pale and the primary patch looked deep. Out of curiosity, I asked if there was a photo of the open wing, to see if the patch...
  5. Jane Turner

    Long-tailed Skua/Jaeger Merseyside UK age needed

    Yesterday I was late onto a Long-tailed Skua that flew past the house - it was an obvious LTS on build/jizz, and from behind/above and flying away, it was silvery grey uppered with striking B&W upper tail coverts, but beyond that I couldn't see any details I assumed that it was a juv and called...
  6. Jane Turner

    Unknown Nocturnal FLight call

    Any pointers in the right direction appreciated https://www.dropbox.com/s/855xlz6693ewte1/unknown%20nocturnal%20call.wav?dl=0
  7. Jane Turner

    Slightly Interesting Chiffchaff

    I've been testing out the suggested primary spacing method to help ID possible Iberian Chiffchaffs - basically can you see it in the field with a scope https://britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Gil-005.jpg So imagine my surprise when I looked at this slightly odd looking...
  8. Jane Turner

    Large Mustelid(?) Footprint ID please Merseyside

    I saw a short run of tracks in frost on a wooden board-walk a few days ago. The clearerst is attached. I'm closing in on either Badger or Otter - either of which would be a 1st record for the site. Is there anything diagnostic in what is here? Any help much appreciated
  9. Jane Turner

    Unkown chip/tjip call NW UK

    I've got another audio mystery from a couple of days ago. When I 1st heard this from distance I was wondering about Ortolan Bunting. As I got closer it became clear that it was coming from the ground where there was an isolated patch of stunted Phragmites less than 1m sq and knee high grass...
  10. Jane Turner

    Chiffchaff NW UK poss trisis intergrade

    As part of a nice fall of Common migrants, I recorded a slightly interesting Chiffchaff this morning. Its call was really pleepy. When I first heard it it gave 3 peeps the 3 tiffs and I though I might be about to get an Iberian Chiffchaff. My 1st view of the bird was silhouetted - and it did...
  11. Jane Turner

    Birds killed in Gill Nets - Liverpool Bay

    Yesterday 2 dead Red-throated Divers and 3 dead Guillemots were found dead on the beach off Hoylake next to a large number of filleted and semi-filleted Flounder/Dab carcasses. There were at least 4 tethered gill nets in the intertidal zone and buggy tracks leading back to a slipway on the...
  12. Jane Turner

    Odd Flight call NW Uk - species known

    I recorded this yesterday http://www.xeno-canto.org/365192 Fortunately I saw the bird so no mystery. GSW is a fairly frequent passage migrant but I have never heard anything remotely like this coming out of one. Have anyone else? Its the chip krrr krrr overlaying the singing Grasshopper warbler
  13. Jane Turner

    Wing-barred Phyllosc from Thailand - May

    I've been sent a number of photos of mystery Phyllosc by a friend. I've not cleared publishing them with him - so for now this is an intellectual exercise. In the field it looked to be an Arctic type in moult. It was relatively sluggish, large looking and silent. Looking at the photos...
  14. Jane Turner

    Mystery calidrid

    While looking for something else I got distracted by this Chinese mystery bird Look at the legs on this! http://xinjiang.birds.watch/photos/0022/001/00220006201.jpg
  15. Jane Turner

    Harrier UK Oct 2015

    Posted for a friend Any thoughts - it looked heavy and bright orange underneath in the field.
  16. Jane Turner

    Foxed by a tjip call

    I recorded this this morning. There were actually much longer gaps between the calls than here, apart from the 1st 3. I've cut out all the dead space to make the file smaller. I am pretty sure the descending tieuu call came from the same unseen bird. The calls were very resonant and far...
  17. Jane Turner

    Tree Pipit spp. Sound recording UK

    I've been teased by this bird which has made 3 fly overs in 2 days. Its shaped like a Tree Pipit and flew like a Tree pipit. It didn't sound quite right for Tree Pipit to my ear. As it approached, its 1st call had me looking up for a Redwing. Only when it got closer did it start sounding...
  18. Jane Turner

    Bunting spp call

    This morning I heard a rather Robin like tick (3) followed by a slightly fatter sounding tjip. I just had time to think eh up, that might be interesting when a bunting-shaped bird lifted off from the ground, where it had been out of sight in a garden, and took off like a surface to air missile...
  19. Jane Turner

    Unusual subsong

    Posted "for your interest" I knew what it was because I'd heard calls, but it took nearly 2 minutes to sound conventional. There is only one recording of sub-song on Xeno canto https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/rarely-hear-subsong
  20. Jane Turner

    Advice please - re SPAs RAMSAR functional linkage and Brexit

    I'm speaking next at a public meeting next week re plans to build a Trump-like Golf resort adjacent to a site which holds a regular 1000+ strong Blackwit wintering population. I was all lined up to show functional linkage with the Dee Estuary SPA, which specifically mentions internationally...
  21. Jane Turner

    Presumed Blackcap (sub)Song with odd phrasing

    Has anyone heard a Blackcap do a sub song like this recording, specifically the acro-like slow phrasing and repeats 3 or 4 examples in between the more standard issue song https://soundcloud.com/jane-turner-17/presumed-blackcap We never saw the bird making the odd phrased song, but a...
  22. Jane Turner

    Unknown call recording

    I walked into quite a fall of migrants this morning but spent nearly all the time staring at a patch of buckthorn. I hear a resonant tack call (I 1st assumed a Sylvia) then it started putting a whiit durr before the tack, so I assumed a chat of some type - it was vaguely reminiscent of...
  23. Jane Turner

    Variation in Rock Pipits (littoralis)

    Over the last few high tides I've been able to get closer than usual to the local saltmarsh feeding rock pipits. All are presumed littoralis since they are migratory and on a saltmarsh rather than any nearby rocky shore. Some look indistinguisable from petrosus, some look distinctive and one...
  24. Jane Turner

    Yellowhammer without chestnut rump?

    We had an odd bunting at Red Rocks today. It spent most of its time flying in circles around us. Came down 4 times - twice out of view. It sounded like a Yellowhammer but there were a few things a bit weird about it. I didn't see it as well as I wanted since I had a camera pressed to my face...
  25. Jane Turner

    Harrier Spp

    I'm just torturing myself - having already consigned this to the unsubmittable bin http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3289243&postcount=1561 Nothing to add beyond what you can see or believe you can see in the photos Taken in NW UK yesterday
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