I'm back again- Photo taken over the Dodder river in Ireland this evening (1 Viewer)

[keps]

Thanks to Butty for giving me the ID of the Swift yesterday. I was back out with my camera again today trying to get a better shot of the Swift and took a lot of pics. Sifting through them on my PC - this one kinda stood apart. To me it seemed to be travelling fast- then again maybe it's a garden bird?? just mingling with all the swifts??

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,
its a Wood Pigeon. After noticing it, the right colours, including the warm, peachy neck are all there

 

[keps]

Hello,
its a Wood Pigeon. After noticing it, the right colours, including the warm, peachy neck are all there

Thank you- I had just moved on to the next pic in my sequence and saw the white-ish stripe on its wing- and the penny dropped!( even for me) Thanks again

 

[Butty]

Just an observation, but... it's not possible for us to know what your objectives are: either to learn how to identify birds, or just to take photos of whatever birds you see and then to identify them later. If the latter... fine. But, if the former, you will learn far more and much more quickly by instead using binoculars largely to watch birds and then spending lots of time consulting your field guide. In the present case, if watching with binoculars, you would very quickly see the total difference in both flight style and shape between swift and wood pigeon.