Is this a Mealy Redpoll? (pictures) (1 Viewer)

[Stuarty]

Following on from this thread, I managed to get a couple of pictures (albeit very poor - camera is hard to hold still enough on 7x digital zoom, plus my windows need cleaned!) of the regular very pale Redpoll which flocks with the others:

Pictures really do not do how pale this bird is any justice, it stands out a mile!

 

[Hotspur]

Looks like it, not great pics but noticeably pale ground colour.

 

[Stuarty]

I know, pictures are terrible. It is very pale, stands out from the other 30+ in the regular flock.

 

[Stuarty]

There are two of them together in the garden just now, both are noticeably bigger than the others?

 

[Alexjh1]

If they are still there, and you camera has the option to do so, you could try turn the "iso" rating on it up a bit perhaps and take some more photos - I don't know what it's on now but perhaps at 400/800 you'll get clearer images if its set quite low? Images will get progressively more "noisy" in all liklihood, but will also be crisper so potentially easier to identify.

 

[birding maniac]

I think they are. Grey overall colour, noticeably larger with a white wing bar

 

[birding maniac]

I think it is- pale grey body colour, larger, white wing bar, grey head too

 

[Stuarty]

Thanks for the help. I've tried to take a better picture but they're all coming out pretty much the same. They were right next to the window earlier and they are quite a bit bigger than the more brown ones, however by the time I'd grabbed my camera and returned to the window the garden was empty so they'd obviously been spooked by a neighbour or something.

 

[OlaB]

Even though the pictures aren't perfect there is hardly any doubt that it is a Mealy. And also noticably bigger as you say. A bird looking like this would not even be considered as Lesser here.