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    30/03, Devon. Another (un)Common Buzzard?

    Thanks again to all who took so much time to reply, some very interesting rabbit holes, there! Hearing that there's no such things as species-specific flight styles is a bit of a blow [reminds me of large gulls, tbh..], but that's birding. While I'm not entirely convinced that this is a Common...
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    30/03, Devon. Another (un)Common Buzzard?

    Thanks for the details, especially including images. I do feel the need to point out that the first four are entirely unlike the bird in question, with the fifth only showing some similarity around the head. The last - the comparison with RLB - is a real educational one, though; brilliant. That...
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    30/03, Devon. Another (un)Common Buzzard?

    I've been umming and ahhing about this for days, finally decided to bite the bullet and ask you fine people. The local gulls went off at ~1130 local and I picked this up from my kitchen window. One look at the underwing had me scrambling for the camera, and I got these two shots, craning up...
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    Diver ID Help, West Sussex, UK

    Hi Mokey. Red-throated Diver shows extensive white on the neck in adult winter plumage - the classic saying being if you can see white from the back it's RTD - but first winter birds such as this will retain much/all of their greyer juvenile plumage and look quite different, as you suspected.
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    Devon wader i.d please 🙏

    Looks very much like a Greenshank to me, albeit with an aberrant bill; perhaps damaged in the past? You do see birds now and again with very oddly-shaped bills for various reasons. The 'dark' legs can be explained by lighting, mud [Greenshanks will happily wade belly-deep, and muddy water can...
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    Devon Birding

    Not for many a year now, I'm afraid... Whole county's a bust for them. We get the odd passage bird for lucky individuals, but that's it. :(
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    Wader - phalarope or just sanderling?

    Eye mask [and thin wingbar at primaries] indicates phalarope sp. over Sanderling. Which phalarope...? Lack of visible wingbar thickening on secondaries, and length and fineness of bill, plus seeming white on rump sides [though may be photo effect] indicate Red-necked more likely. [Also...
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    What Italy (Lombardy) in a tree September 2011

    Always fun from one photo! That pose looks very 'tit', it appears to have a black bib, the bill seems wrong for a Blackcap, and there is what looks like a pale spot near the base of said bill. So I'll say Marsh Tit as well. [Was it calling, by any chance?]
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    Devon Birding

    Exminster is a much bigger site to get around and is currently very short on water and long on vegetation. So for a quick high tide visit, Bowling Green is the choice.
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    uk offshore pics

    I can second the request for date and location, and also agree with Lou about the 1st bird being 2cy Herring Gull. As for the others... The default large gull in UK waters is Herring, and both would likely be this species. You could argue that the second gull has a very similar bill and head to...
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    Devon Coast, Not In Waring

    Having now found it online [easy when you have a name!], it is indeed a Crambid, of all things... Recent arrival from Asia, so not in the literature.
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    Devon Coast, Not In Waring

    Ah, but it's also not in Sterling, which does. I perhaps ought to mention that it's the size of half a credit card, too...
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    Devon Coast, Not In Waring

    Thank you! :)
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    Devon Coast, Not In Waring

    This is sat on my building right now, it's not in Waring [unless it's a very odd Beautiful Carpet], so I bring it here. Help..? Thanks in advance!
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    UK (SW) - Warbler type?

    Firstly, yes, looks very much like a Phylloscopus warbler, with Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler the obvious candidates. The key features - length of wing, facial plumage - aren't really clear in the photo, unfortunately. The strong supercilium points to Willow, the dark-looking legs to Chiffchaff...
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