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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 3567177" data-attributes="member: 32998">To me the first pic looks quite 'blown' or whatever the word is (distance/pixellation causing) - the outline of the corvid and its primaries shows this well. Given the pinched in appearance of the crow it would be fair comparison with the bop -ie not right.What I'm trying to say is the crow looks skinnier than it should - by the same argument the bop also appears more slender than it actually is (in the head area, long tail etc). Bringing it back to reality makes it more Common Buzzard rather than Honey if anything ... and yes, not the tiny pigeon head of Honey.Full tail and fully bulging wings of Honey not coming out in these pic for me either, although I totally get it's superficial resemblance to that species n some respects. Which fits with imm Common Buzzard as some of the experts have argued.</blockquote>