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Hello,
yes I agree with you: Curlew, Common Redshank and Grey Plover for me too.
Your Grey Plover is one of those pictures, where its good to trust the gut feeling/jizz a not to dig deeper.
Hello,
yes I agree with you: Curlew, Common Redshank and Grey Plover for me too.
Your Grey Plover is one of those pictures, where its good to trust the gut feeling/jizz a not to dig deeper.
I think the bill is camouflaged with the same colouration as the mud it has been probing but perhaps other images may reveal a crown stripe. Looks a tad bulky for the smaller of the two species.....we shall see.
yes, I surely squeeze too much out of the first picture but I dig deeper (and skip picture quality, no offense you know):
The first bird is a Curlew imo, I agree with The Fern:
shape of the supercilium is bad/strange for a Whimbrel imo, because it's much weaker in front of the eye, where it seems to fade (?, yes picture quality)
Same with the eye stripe, which seems to have a quite sharp and distinct upper border, but a slightly smeared one towards the earcoverts (like smeared mascara) Bad for Whimbrel, where it is often either distinct and clearcut or adding to a oval shaped twinkling eye impression. But good for those well marked Curlews.
In first photo, from our point of view, sun is incident from front and right. Front half of crown is in shade, rear half is well-lit and that (obviously) was the part to which my comment referred.