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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 1384472" data-attributes="member: 29880">Ha ha ...the 'wind up' is in the mention  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I could easily quote the comment another birder, trying to argue an alternative opinion to the one he had on the egret thread ....''that one can spend many many years looking at birds but not actually seeing them'' (but I won't as that will wind you up!o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />)As for the points you raised, I believe CAU and I have addressed all of said features showing them to be not inconsistent with Corn Bunting in so far as they actually exist, or indeed give an impression to exist under varying photographic conditions.   Perhaps go through the links and say why they are not applicable to the features we're 'seeing' in the ID bird?  (Other than the links are to photos of Corn Bunting of course, which in your opinion this isn't!)(Good to meet you today too!)Yes Mark, an interesting thread - your mood seems to rise and fall as it swings in and out of favor with your original stated case which makes it even more interesting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />As I've said consistently, I hope, I'm not nailing my colours to the mast, yet nobody has yet convinced me this is a Reed Bunting or some kind of rarity, and that Corn can be ruled out, especially given the more likely Corn habitat it was found in ... ie. high on the Downs where winter flocks are more common than Reed Bunting which tend to be found lower down, (or indeed Hybrid/vagrant rarities which tend not to be found at all on the Sussex Downs unless in dodgy images <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />).I'm still undecided and still saying Corn Bunting needs to be ruled out - I don't think it can be on these images!  However, as John says, I'm sure the solution would be staring at us in the face were we in the field.</blockquote>

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