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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JCLynn" data-source="post: 1661511" data-attributes="member: 77625">Thanks everyone. Looks like as we get older, and,supposedly, more experienced, we get a bit clouded and try to look too deep. When I was a lad, and used to spend days and days in the winter just watching the swans, I could tell a Bewick's a mile off, even without bins, just by it's look and shape. Bewick's and Whoopers, seemed to me, back then, as different as chalk and cheese. Nowadays', I look over the bird several times, and then still can't make my mind up!Having said that, when you see them both on the ground together, they are easy to tell. It's when they are up in the sky, on their own, that it gets more difficult.</blockquote>