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So two questions
Lovely walk and picnic in Argeles - I had wanted to go migration watching but the cloud was in and I couldn't see my nose!
I was literally on the phone to my dad saying the earliest i had seen a Woodchat in this area was the 24/07 a few years back when there was an adult Woodchat, then a second then two juvs.
The question about the adults is can you differentiate between the sexes? I'm thinking that the clearer bird is the female it looks a little browner int he tail area and the head pattern. Apologies for the quality of the second picture - it's awful but does seem to show blacker band...
As for the Juvs, and bizarely was exactly the same question I asked a couple of years ago and bizarely in exactly the same spot, The seocnd bird is clearly Woodchat for me but juv 1 shows an extremely red back although the bill is a monster! The previous birds were all confirmed as Woodchats...
NB Should point out that NO territories have been confirmed for our region although they are regular birds... I'm convinced they breed here which this would suggest.
Lovely walk and picnic in Argeles - I had wanted to go migration watching but the cloud was in and I couldn't see my nose!
I was literally on the phone to my dad saying the earliest i had seen a Woodchat in this area was the 24/07 a few years back when there was an adult Woodchat, then a second then two juvs.
The question about the adults is can you differentiate between the sexes? I'm thinking that the clearer bird is the female it looks a little browner int he tail area and the head pattern. Apologies for the quality of the second picture - it's awful but does seem to show blacker band...
As for the Juvs, and bizarely was exactly the same question I asked a couple of years ago and bizarely in exactly the same spot, The seocnd bird is clearly Woodchat for me but juv 1 shows an extremely red back although the bill is a monster! The previous birds were all confirmed as Woodchats...
NB Should point out that NO territories have been confirmed for our region although they are regular birds... I'm convinced they breed here which this would suggest.
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