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    ....A return to that bloody Barranca!

    Ken, with the Cayenne Tern in Wexford, I was reminded about the interesting tern that was in the photo you posted of an Audouin's Gull with Sandwich Terns in Fuerteventura at the end of last year, post 17 of this thread. I remember there was a pale billed tern in the photo and its making me...
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    Corvid Fuerteventura?

    Ken, Looking carefully at the photo you posted I noticed that the tail looks oddly short so your corvid looks slightly odd, but even allowing for this I am struggling to see this as a Raven (or Chough). I do wonder if there is another candidate in Brown-necked Raven? I note that the normal...
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    A few odds and sods from Fuerteventura last week?

    You may be right about the bird in the video (I used the link for the collection of clips accessible from the link). I had been looking at several clips and didn't think to check that the bird was correctly identified - I couldn't see much information about where the image was taken. Whoever...
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    A few odds and sods from Fuerteventura last week?

    Hi Ken, as you know I rather agree with Miami that the Pipit looks more like a Red-throated rather than Meadow but I recall from one of your posts (it may be your excellent trip report) that you felt that there may not be enough streaking to the rump. Also, I think you mentioned somewhere that...
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    An old chestnut from 2005......?

    Ken, this is indeed an interesting individual. Over the majority of its range Song Thrush is migratory and I imagine those to the East of their range must winter in places such as the Arabian Gulf. Having recently returned from a business trip there and seeing some good late autumn birds that...
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    NEast London, Interesting Accip images?

    Ken, I have just remembered one particular occasion a few years back! I saw a female sparrowhawk drop from a great height and dive at great speed at a steep angle, but not vertical and I was able to follow it all the way down to a collared dove sitting on an exposed spray of a tree! I did not...
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    The Headland that just keeps giving!

    That's a great report and very enjoyable thread Ken! I have been visiting friends in Cyprus for a number of years but friends living in Nicosia so much of my birding there is out of season. My only spring visit to your favourite headland was one day in May when the place was full of good...
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    Extra limital BOP.....?

    Last year while driving I saw a female Gos fly across the section of the M25 between Epping forest and Brentwood. Although I am absolutely certain about the identity of the bird I was going at some speed and so was the Goshawk. It would have been difficult to put together an adequate...
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    Fuerteventura Phylloscs.....?

    It is fascinating to learn that Yellow Browed Warblers seem to becoming a regular winter visitor to Fuerteventura and I wonder if this is part of a new wider wintering area in NW Africa. Comments on this thread seems to suggest that Iberian Chiffchaff does not occur on this Island, but looking...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    Looking through a publication from the early 1970's I found a photo of Cormorants nesting on the Farne Islands. Although this one photo does not prove anything it seems to shows a group of "black headed" British rock nesting Cormorants circa 40 years ago. The article was in a popular magazine...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    In a past thread (2012) Brett Richards mentioned a paper that speculated that there was a third subspecies of cormorant in the north Atlantic http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=245427. This has also been explored by Martin Garner in Birding Frontiers. The article by L Marion and J Le...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    Charles, this paper touches on the evidence used to assess racial ID and therefore the mixed nature of the colonies. http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/article_files/V100/V100_N05/V100_N5_26_36.pdf Thanks Mark, this seems interesting and the numbers of birds nesting in inland...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    I am very pleased to see those images, thanks Smiths, they are very helpful. I too have found examples of Carbo type individuals with a frosting due to the white filoplumes during the breeding season. From the dates of the photos from Iceland and a comment with one it seems that they just...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    I think it needs to be made clear that these ground nesting Cormorants are actually on a Baltic Island of Ruegen (Germany) and that they are firmly in in an area where I believe all the Cormorants are Sinensis and further web searches seem to confirm that this is the case. In fact the nests are...
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    P.c.sinensis....?

    Ken, you raise an interesting question as I have a similar recollection to yourself. Back in the 1970's when we both spent far too long on the KGV reservoir there were no white headed cormorants... just fishermen who didn't like them much! I actually remember seeing my first Sinensis in the Lee...
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    Wanted - volunteers to help map black redstart territories in City London

    Whoops Appologies to those who have been trying to e-mail my disclexia got the better of me... the e-mail address is [email protected]
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    Wanted - volunteers to help map black redstart territories in City London

    We will follow up with a slice of cake when confirmed! ;)
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    Wanted - volunteers to help map black redstart territories in City London

    Thank you Ken and by way of encouragement one free coffee per singing black redstart found! :eat: I will be in contact with details of the survey soon!
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    Wanted - volunteers to help map black redstart territories in City London

    Black Redstarts have been a feature of the City of London since the end of the last war, when they colonised the ruins left over after the blitz. Last year a rooftop survey was organised, that showed they "were" still present with several "signing" birds. However, from our rooftop locations it...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    When I saw this bird some weeks ago it seemed odd and just didn't have the look of a reed warbler, maybe this was also lots do with the jizz. The contrast between the upper parts and underparts is really quite marked, and also I wonder if a leucistic reed warbler would lack the characteristic...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    Hi Ken This bird has indeed been an intriguing individual and you have done a great job of gathering so many images of this bird and hopefully it will stay long enough to get some fresh plumage which might help but for now we have an individual that seems wrong for the usual suspects. Although...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    Thanks Ken When I saw the bird originally I thought it lacked any warmth to the rump, hence my request and the shot seems to confirm this. This does indeed seem at odds with the normal warmth to the rump that is exhibited by reed warbler. In fact the rump area does seem to have a colder...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    Ken Great video footage and trying to stop start it I almost managed a clear grab of the rump, but not quite. Are you able to get this from the original footage. The moving footage certainly does show the colouring and the whiteness of the underparts very well despite the thinness of the...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    This is a very interesting looking bird, and initially reminded me of an EOW but clearly not this, but like others I considered Marsh and Blyth's and of course the possibility of it just being a odd coloured Reed warbler, but none of these are an easy fit. I already posted my conclusion that it...
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    Unstreaked Acro in London.....

    I saw the bird yesterday and I think it is certainly a good candidate for Caspian Reed Warbler, but I agree with the need for more photos but also feedback with those who are familiar with the finer points on how to separate Eurasian from Caspian.
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