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Recent content by dan houghton
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Micro For ID Please.
It's either Argyresthia goedartella or brokeella, I would plump for the former but a better pic would help!- dan houghton
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- Forum: Butterflies and Moths ID
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Mealy Redpoll?
Looks good to me. Pale ground colour and lacking any of the warm brown tones to head, flanks and wingbars shown by Lessers. Nice one!- dan houghton
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Could it be mealy?
Yep, a cracking Mealy Redpoll, nice one! Mealys have a paler ground colour (greyish rather than brown) to the plumage, lacking the warmer brown tones present on Lessers on the face, flanks and wingbars. The wingbars tend to be broader and whiter. The pale tramlines down the centre of the mantle...- dan houghton
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Brent goose subspecies?
Cheers for the link Twite. I still think it looks like a pretty bog standard Dark-bellied Brent. There are greyish tones to the upperparts, flanks too dull etc etc. Also, the photos give the impression of it being slightly larger than the Pale-bellieds. Was this obvious in the field? When we get...- dan houghton
- Post #7
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Brent goose subspecies?
Looks like a Dark-bellied to me. Can't see it on the photos but I'm assuming the dark pigmentation on the underparts extends to the rear of the legs? Nothing is suggesting Pale-bellied to me, even the darker end of the spectrum....- dan houghton
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- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Green guy
Hermit Thrush. Not in yhe UK I'm guessing?!...- dan houghton
- Post #3
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Help with Scaup in NS Canada
Looks pretty good for a drake Lesser Scaup to me - different head shape with a little 'bump' on the rear crown, the bird also looks smaller and has a darker grey mantle which is good!- dan houghton
- Post #2
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A
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Find a Wallcreeper
Maybe we did it a weekend too early?......- dan houghton
- Post #44
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Find a Wallcreeper
No rules, just get out there and check any vaguely suitable habbo this weekend and find one B (: No need to report back, just put the news out if you find one!!!- dan houghton
- Post #32
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Find a Wallcreeper
I'm sure most birders/twitchers wouldn't turn their nose up at seeing a Wallcreeper in Britain, regardless of whether they've seen one before or not. It is surely (one of) the best species on the British List? The idea was just to get as many people as poss to check habitats and areas that may...- dan houghton
- Post #27
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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The Autumn is Over..
A Desert Warbler would be nice....- dan houghton
- Post #131
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Find a Wallcreeper
How about 3 weekends time - 20th/21st Nov?- dan houghton
- Post #16
- Forum: Birds & Birding
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Find a Wallcreeper
Well, winter is almost upon us and it's been 25 years since the last acceptable Wallcreeper in Britain. How about a 'National Find a Wallcreeper Day/s', where we all go out and check our nearest cliffs, quarries, large buildings..... A day in November and perhaps another in March would seem...- dan houghton
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- Forum: Birds & Birding
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white wagtail or pied?
Cheers Roy It didn't strike me as a classic male White, though shade of the upperparts aside, everything else seemed ok. I'm not too up on just how much variation there is within White Wags. Dan- dan houghton
- Post #10
- Forum: Bird Identification Q&A