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Recent content by Richard Prior

  1. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Too easy as I feared (though one could imagine the bird in the photo is some sort of Buzzard or Eagle by its odd posture)! Attached is the scene a split second later.
  2. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Perhaps the young folk are finally doing some studying instead of passing their time on Birdforum ;) , so here's an easy one from me again (once you find the bird in the photo of course), France, yesterday 26 May.
  3. Richard Prior

    North Sea Thread

    Yes that would be much more likely I agree Rob, it was the brilliant white throat that put me off thinking thunbergi.
  4. Richard Prior

    North Sea Thread

    I agree ! The wagtail though is a bit of a puzzler, I’m not sure it’s Blue-headed myself, bizarres ( considering your location) it reminds me more of cinereocapilla, ´Italian Wagtail’. What do others think?
  5. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Let's hope it finds a mate! Mission accomplished (I said to my wife this morning that today's goal was to find the first vultures of the year!) , well timed too - just before the rugby final starts, the first 81 Griffon Vulture passed overhead, a nice group of seven very high (flying hidden...
  6. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Marsh Warbler was easy for me at our previous place, a boggy area with sedges and reeds less than 100m away held up to four pairs most years. I've found them about 3kms away from here so it's one that's a likely addition one day (I hope). Some welcome sun and blue sky this morning, thrushes and...
  7. Richard Prior

    An odd feather found on a patch walk on a plain in Epping Forest.

    Like Ken, I see my best birds after eating a few self-found mushrooms !
  8. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    A sad sight greeted us this morning, the rocks behind which the Coal Tit were nesting had been dislodged/ scrabbled out and fallen down to the ground and the nest destroyed, just a couple of juv. feathers left. I’m assuming a Pine Marten is the culprit though next door’s cat might have done it...
  9. Richard Prior

    An odd feather found on a patch walk on a plain in Epping Forest.

    Makes me think of juvenile Shelduck but it’s too early for them to be flying around yet. Ah, I see Butty has already suggested a better answer!
  10. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Despite this very wet and cool May, there's evidence of successful breeding here too, best was seeing FOUR Black Woodpecker flying past the house the other evening, making a lot of noise, so surely a family. Other juvs/families seen in the past two weeks are Long-tailed Tit, Greenfinch...
  11. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Yes Alexander, it Hoppooed ;) from the side of the road as we set off from home, this is only my third record here in 8 years (but two of them this year!).
  12. Richard Prior

    Guess the bird-

    Blimey, well done George! Here's one taken by mobile phone through a car windscreen here in the French alps (1000m asl) three days ago:
  13. Richard Prior

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    3rd May found me up high again, exploring a new area as the BG count organizer had allocated me to a different sector for Sunday 5th! ! May is when things change fast in the Alps, snow-covered slopes change to green and the valleys resound to the music of the cow bells as the various local herds...
  14. Richard Prior

    Wing Fluttering

    It’s primarily a pair bonding behaviour, it seems to me from observing various tit species over the years. During courtship and nest building the male will bring a tasty morsel and give it to the female who will solicit the gift with wing fluttering. Often during the incubation period the male...
  15. Richard Prior

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Haha, as I quickly learned, it’s always good to delight the French side of the family ;) Just been doing a bit of garden tidying ( I love the French name for a strimmer, une débroussailleuse!), the moment I stopped there was a male 78 Common Redstart singing in next door’s cherry tree. For...
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