Photographic Quiz (Rejected Pictures) (1 Viewer)

[pie]

Coots juv moorhen & wigeon?

(I dont know is the real answer!) lol!

 

[JCLynn]

Coots and wigeon is good for two! One of the others is a 'lifer' for me, not a rarity, just one I had never 'ticked'

 

[pie]

Ooh! Female Pochard?

 

[JCLynn]

Ooh! Female Pochard?

Thats three! One to go! Anyone know the fourth?

 

[Sy V]

Female Tufted Duck

 

[JCLynn]

Female Tufted Duck

Correct Simon!

Thats all four named.
the tufted was a lifer for me in so much that I had never seen a 'white faced' one before.

 

[Pam_m]

Looks as though it is your turn, Simon!o

 

[Sy V]

OK, I'll get something...

 

[Sy V]

Just back in from my inaugural ringing session. 51 birds processed and 11 species in all. Not bad for a green area in the middle of Redditch!
This has to be the most rewarding hobby known to man - absolutely brilliant.
This isn't really a throw away photo, but let's see who can identify these two...

 

[JCLynn]

Tougher than it seems Simon.
I'll go for Lesser Whitethroat and Nightingale

 

[Sy V]

m8

Thanks for that stab.
Just to let you know, I trained at RAF Wyton and did three tours at RAF Brampton.
My first two mortgaged properties were in Huntingdon, too.
So, Cambs is no stranger to me.

Sy

 

[Sy V]

...and I should have said that you are 50% correct but alas also 50% wrong!

 

[Pam_m]

A juvenile and female Lesser Whitethroat?

Great news with the ringing lesson!:t:

 

[Sy V]

Actually Pam, you're 100% correct... for one of them. One is indeed a (brackets) female 1st year Lesser Whitethroat.
Isn't she beautiful.
I've included another shot of the other one (and remembered to change the file name!)... which should help to ID it.

 

[JCLynn]

Allula and secondaries point to female Whitethroat for the brown one. Weird how we can tell a bird 'in the field' by jizz and conformity, but seeing one in the hand is so difficult.

 

[Sy V]

Bingo

Whitethroat and lesser - hence why I put them in a comparative picture (not that they're at all similar, bar names).

Yes, that was what I found yesterday, with this very bird.
I approached the net in which it has hanging and about 20 yds away I said to myself, "Hey a Whitethroat".
By the time I was up next to it, I all I could say was an "LBJ".
It's a totally new world, and I don't ever recall being so excited about a new aspect of a hobby.
Next week, they're coming up to our fields with a view to ringing there!

Well done m8, over to you squire.

 

[JCLynn]

Great hobby you have taken up Simon. I bet you could not believe just how big those little birds feet are till you started handling them.

How are all of you on sillouettes?

 

[Sy V]

I'm getting Passerine - Hirundinidae feelings here. So it probably isn't. But let's go for a Swallow taken from you car at the weekend.

Yes m8, they are oddly large whilst being really delicate.
What surprised me was how feisty Blue Tits are - the other species just let you get on with it, except the wrens that wriggle like nobody's business. But the BTs would peck your hand off if they were capable!

 

[JCLynn]

Good try, but not a Swallow Simon.

 

[Pam_m]

Beautiful pics, Simon! A worthwhile and rewarding hobby in my opinion!

Well done Sm8!:t:

A House Martin, well I have to say a specieso.. I reckon Simon is right somehow!