What's this bird? Close to Kandersteg in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland number 3 - end of July 2021 (1 Viewer)

[MacBirdie]

A bit further in a wooded area "Arvenseeli" I saw this bird. A Chaffinch? Thank you!

 

[Butty]

1. Pass.
2. Chaffinch.

 

[MacBirdie]

Thank you. It might have been the same species. There were a few of them flying around.

 

[THE_FERN]

Y. 1 is male Chaffinch

 

[McHeath]

For 1.: getting a hint of blue there, maybe a Jay?

 

[THE_FERN]

For 1.: getting a hint of blue there, maybe a Jay?

No. You can see the Chaffinch's greenish mantle. Male Chaffinch has steel blue grey on head

 

[McHeath]

No. You can see the Chaffinch's greenish mantle. Male Chaffinch has steel blue grey on head

I'm talking about picture 1 - on my phone it's blue/purplish, not green.

 

[MacBirdie]

Thank you!

 

[Butty]

The only green that I see in pic 1 is tree - larch, I think. No blue.

 

[MacBirdie]

The size fits a finch, it was smaller than a jay.

 

[pbjosh]

Whether you want to try to ID or accept an ID for photo #1 is up to you. I mean ZERO insult / disrespect but it's just a photo of a blur that is open to interpretation. It can be fun trying but no one is going to be certain, and I won't offer my attempt.

Cheers
Josh

 

[moose1991]

I thought Hawfinch for #1.

 

[lou salomon]

both are chaffinches!

 

[nartreb]

Whether you want to try to ID or accept an ID for photo #1 is up to you. I mean ZERO insult / disrespect but it's just a photo of a blur that is open to interpretation. It can be fun trying but no one is going to be certain, and I won't offer my attempt.

Cheers
Josh

I think we can do a bit better. There's a bright patch that is surely not part of the tree. From there, you can see an adjacent black patch (below and left), and some grey (above and right), a bit of brown, and so on. I can't think of any non-bird interpretations for this color pattern, which seems a fine match to Chaffinch wing and mantle to me (not Hawfinch and certainly not Jay) though any opinions of mine about European songbirds should be given extremely little weight.

 

[AStevenson]

PIc 1 is a chaffinch too. The white patch is the white covert/shoulder patch on the wing, the darker brown immediately above the mantle/scapulars and the the greyer plumage below the chest/belly. The black diagonally below the white is typical of chaffinch wing. The head is largely obscured but is facing right. You are looking up from almost underneath the bird.

 

[MacBirdie]

Thanks everybody!! It always amazes me how you people can see so much in a very bad picture. I just put it up for fun and to learn a bit about ID-ing birds.

 

[Wind1]

No id info, just wanted to say I honeymooned in Kandersteg then visited again 10 years later. It is the most stunning area I have ever been to. Beautiful.