query birds Mallorca last may .... (1 Viewer)

yew · Oct 30, 2011

First photo is a Black headed bunting or something like that I think. The second two photos of same bird had a very long tail and didnt seem quite right at all for me for Great Tit.
The fourth looked a bit like an unusual Wren at first to me but not sure and last I think is a Meadow Pipit ....... Maybe somone will correctly identify please. I also saw and heard heaps of Cirl buntings but heartbroken I did not manage any sort of photo but hopefully will do next year.

Jonny721 · Oct 30, 2011

1 - male House Sparrow
2/3 - Great Tit, nothing else looks like that
4 - Wren
5 - juvenile Blackbird

yew · Oct 30, 2011

thanks but could it be Tree sparrow at all as all of head so dark and can see auborn brown, I could see the chest soft yellow but perhaps Sparrows can be sometimes. I see what you mean by juvenile blackbird but the bird had very pale ferny green on chest on it and rest all pale fawny so again odd coloured one. I did think Great Tit but again not indentical to our ones ....
Again thanks.

Jonny721 · Oct 30, 2011

I suspect that due to the angle you can't see the grey crown on the Sparrow and also Tree Sparrows only have a very small black patch on the chin compared to a large black bib on this bird which makes it a house.

Blackbirds can be extremely variable in colour and I've seen paler birds here in the UK before.

Can't see anything wrong with the Great Tit

yew · Oct 30, 2011

anyway a few more to identify.......... the first photo is of same bird as last two I think though just different bird in another location. Think Spotted Flycatcher is the second and third .....

Parker · Oct 30, 2011

Dolce said:
anyway a few more to identify.......... the first photo is of same bird as last two I think though just different bird in another location. Think Spotted Flycatcher is the second and third .....

They are all Spotted Flycatchers.

yew · Oct 30, 2011

Thanks and few more again ...... not great photos. I saw a pink bird and then got close and thought female pinky Sparrow ...... I showed photos of Corn buntings before and think one here too and last three same bird (I think) .......

yew · Oct 30, 2011

I could hear Sedge warblers in those trees and think thats what the last three photos are of ...... but they move that quickly that I could have got something else.

nickderry · Oct 30, 2011

the pinky bird is a female sparrow (don't know what species they get on the Balearics) with something red reflected on it. Next is a young stonechat. The last three look like sardinian warbler (if they are the same bird - the first pic looks like one)

yew · Oct 30, 2011

Thanks again and your wildlife paintings are really stunning (hope the right person). The Sparrows seemed to be drinking water from the pools or more likely to have been bathing perhaps and they are so tame its unbelievable. I have watched them eat crumbs out of peoples hands, my granchild was stunned at them landing on the table and wary of them. Pinky sparrow taken at the side of a plaza, cant recall if anything about causing the colour and could have been. No idea whats in the cages .....but not wild I dont think.

foresttwitcher · Oct 30, 2011

1. Domestic Geese (Domestic Greylag & Swan Goose types) & Domestic Muscovy Ducks.
4. House Sparrow.

Tiraya · Oct 30, 2011

Am I the only one who thinks that the pinkish bird looks more Chaffinchy? I might retract this comment in the next thirty seconds.

yew · Oct 31, 2011

Well there were Sparrows about everywhere especially female and to me it did not look Sparrow and reason I went across the plaza to look at it ...... actually pink streaky bird close up. Unfortunately did not stay and lucky to get one photo even. Thinking back there was just a whole open plaza facing it and sun only and photo has no colour or effects added whatsover.

bitterntwisted · Oct 31, 2011

nickderry said:
Next is a young stonechat.

I'm not so sure on this one, Nick. It is a chat, obviously, but there's something not quite right structurally for Stonechat, for me. I've never seen a juvenile Black-eared Wheatear but looking at the BWPi illustration it would seem to fit.

bitterntwisted · Oct 31, 2011

Dolce said:
I could hear Sedge warblers in those trees and think thats what the last three photos are of ...... but they move that quickly that I could have got something else.

They won't have been sedge warblers in that habitat. Sardinian warblers (which is what this bird is, as Nick says) have a scratchy song that might sound superficially similar.

yew · Nov 1, 2011

Just seeing now ...... in same pine trees all along the sea I heard the really scratchy sounds and saw heaps of very small slithering birds which I thought sounded like Sedge warblers. Is that possible or again something similar. I now do not recall the sound of those birds photographed in pine tree in woods and think the first one probably is a different bird as lot of birds about. There were sounds I hadnt a clue about. I looked at photos of juvenile Wheaters and to me that is what is in that photo or very similar.
I think first three here I was told Sardinian warblers but to me as big as sparrows and couldnt have been the very small scatchy sounding birds all along the sea. It was like a violin out of tune totally. I have one more photo think of last bird which was one of the most stunning beautiful birds I think you could ever see but it stayed only seconds in each place and very jittery compared to ordinary looking Stonechats. Thanks for help everyone and hope to know a bit more for next April.

timwootton · Nov 1, 2011

Look like female Spanish sparrow above a Sardinian warbler (pic 1) - Sardinian W pic 2 (?) - stonechats, 3, 4, 5.

rockfowl · Nov 1, 2011

timwootton said:
Look like female Spanish sparrow above a Sardinian warbler (pic 1) - Sardinian W pic 2 (?) - stonechats, 3, 4, 5.

Yes

yew · Nov 1, 2011

I think I was told Yellow legged gull and there was three juveniles ...... she stood calling them out of cave for ages before they decided to finally appear. I watched as puzzled at her calling. They appeared slowly one by one like gorgeous balls of fluff still with spotted heads, yet the biggest one was trying to fly and the littliest one soon returned into the safety of the cave home and didnt seem that interested yet in the big world. A truly beautiful sight.

timwootton · Nov 1, 2011

Stonechat and y-l gulls. Looks like nice weather!!!

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