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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Will have to work out what my garden list is another time, but I'd be surprised if it's 40. Just had my first Whimbrel of the year go over calling though - flock of 4. Had my first Grey Plover of the year last weekend and have had Cormorant and Yellow Wagtail recently. Very urban Worthing about...
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    May Moths

    My first of the year and first for location found on a wall at work today in Littlehampton - Swallow Prominent
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    Various Raptors - South Essex UK - 12th May

    Not personally getting the impression it's any longer-winged than a Honey-buzzard. Plus I know they're not the easiest photos to tell in, but I can just about make out 5 fingered primaries. I agree that the first photo is Marsh Harrier
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    A few from Lima, Peru

    Among more photos of Croaking Ground Dove and lots of Black Vultures, I've been sent this one. Can it be ID'd from the photo? I think I've got it down to Tropical or White-throated Kingbird, and of the two I was going with Tropical because it doesn't seem to show a dark eye-stripe?
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    Scaup Type , Letham Fife

    It's a hybrid with that massive black bill tip. Lesser Scaup have a tiny black nail there
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    Woolston Eyes, UK. 12th May 2024

    It's a female Marsh Harrier
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    River warbler or common grasshopper warbler?

    As said above, it is definitely River Warbler. The "sewing machine" rhythm is a real giveaway is as far as locustella warblers in Europe go (whether there's a local bush- or tree-cricket that sounds similar is another matter!)
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    Gull ID Sussex

    Thanks again for taking the time to reply(y) In a couple of months time, I'll be trying to string (I mean see) juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls at the same location, and may well depend on yours and Alexander's input then too!
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    Gull ID Sussex

    Do you think it's possible that it's a subadult with adult-like plumage but some immaturity in bare parts as Alexander suggested? That was my first assumption too, but the head looked quite strangely small too. I was partly wondering whether there was Caspian influence too, but you've answered...
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    Gull ID Sussex

    Thanks Lou. I hadn't heard that about Herring Gulls. I know there's been a lot of Gannets with completely dark eyes, which are supposed to be the ones that have caught and survived avian flu. I guess it makes sence that the same could be true with other species of normally pale-eyed birds...
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    A few from Lima, Peru

    Another dove photo I've been sent by my Mum. Pretty confident this is a male Croaking Ground Dove unless I've overlooked something.
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    Ficedula flycat, today at Marrakesh, Morocco.

    That one was a nominate Pied on DNA
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    Ficedula flycat, today at Marrakesh, Morocco.

    Possibly Iberian Pied Flycatcher still?
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    Vancouver city May 2024 gull

    Given primaries look a bit grey, probably "Olympic Gull" (Glaucous-winged x Western)?
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    Eagle, Kolka Latvia today

    Looks like Lesser Spotted to me, the bowed wings looks like it's just stalling in the wind?
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