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  1. RichieTwitchy

    Beatles, A day in the Life, video

    Dammit - I so wanted it to be a Blackbird (y)
  2. RichieTwitchy

    Egg Shell Nottinghamshire United Kingdom.

    See here - How To Identify Bird Egg Shells - Woodland Trust
  3. RichieTwitchy

    Song Thrush Sub Song (Otterspool Liverpool UK 1/6/24)

    This has got to be a Song Thrush - but is it a juvenile performing a sub song? The bird was hidden amongst trees. All the calls where made from the same bird. Please note: That the weird 'heavy breathing' sound is not Darth Vader nor me - it's the poor quality microphone of the phone I was...
  4. RichieTwitchy

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

    That's because you're a fun-guy :p
  5. RichieTwitchy

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    I was talking as if the OP (and any birder really) had seen it and then photographed it (y) Unnoticed background birds - well, it's up to the individual and their 'tick' philosophy I guess. I always take a camera, a pair of bins, a paperback field guide, a phone to both act as a digital field...
  6. RichieTwitchy

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    Definitely - if you've photographed it then you must've seen it. If we're saying that because you didn't see it with the 'naked eye' then you can't tick it then a lot of scope users are gonna be well miffed having to untick all theirs! The whole point of record shots is to either verify what...
  7. RichieTwitchy

    What kind of sandpiper/sanderling? Santiago, Galapagos

    Just a bit of advice for FaunHartley - and anyone who photographs birds especially for record shots - using your camera's RAW image setting (or equivalent) will aid the recovery of overexposed and underexposed images enabling seemingly lost features to be 'seen' again. The trade-off is the...
  8. RichieTwitchy

    Bird call ID (London, UK)

    Yep definitely (y) I've cleaned it up a little and increased the volume and you can clearly hear a motor or electrical fan start when the 'beeps' start, and end when they end. Is it April again already :D
  9. RichieTwitchy

    ID if possible Central France

    That's interesting Andy so I thought I'd uploaded the original but changed to .jpg and no thumbnail. I then reduced the file size (as you mention) and still no thumbnail. Then I finally reduced the actual size of the image and the thumbnail finally shows. So it seems it's the image dimensions...
  10. RichieTwitchy

    ID if possible Central France

    Yes they open fine - I think the filename extension '.jpeg' can be troublesome to view in its thumbnail state. You can actually change a filename extension from .jpeg to .jpg without affecting the file.
  11. RichieTwitchy

    Did Merlin Bird ID really hear these in my garden?

    My two penn'orth - without a clear visual sighting then surely the first port of call should be the use of probability. Now whilst we can't rule out rarities (there are plenty of megas that abound) we surely must first pause and reflect. In saying that - my app has just told me that there's a...
  12. RichieTwitchy

    Strange garden bird

    ...though I'd still go ahead and get my son to charge people to see it (y)
  13. RichieTwitchy

    2 Warbler Sound IDs (Garden Warbler vs Blackcap, Cettis) plus Scoter

    Number 2 definitely sounds like a CW - you'll need someone with a better ear for the other 2.
  14. RichieTwitchy

    Help me ID a bird by sound

    I've reduced the background noise if that helps. Obviously this will affect the tone of the call, but not drastically - and the audio file could still be useful for identification.
  15. RichieTwitchy

    I’d like to crop and post an audio file from Merlin off my iPhone.

    As Butty suggests, it may a simple process as with Android. Make sure you have a audio editing app installed. If that doesn't help then you will have some sort of file management system, which will hold the recordings in a folder - if this folder can't be found then possibly do a phone search...
  16. RichieTwitchy

    I’d like to crop and post an audio file from Merlin off my iPhone.

    Have you downloaded the audio onto your iPhone (from the Merlin app) or are you streaming the audio and wish to capture it? If the audio file has automatically downloaded onto your phone then it'll be in a default location - these 'locations' can be hard to find. If you locate it then you can...
  17. RichieTwitchy

    UK, Horsell Common, Surrey bird call identification

    Funnily enough I was down there the other day and heard this 'call' coming from the woods...
  18. RichieTwitchy

    Hi, I'm Ossy (or David, more formally)

    You're best starting a new thread for this query as it can/will get lost when posted within another thread (y)
  19. RichieTwitchy

    Hello,

    What pointers made you think it could be a female Grackle and not something more local/common? And please don't say 'Google' ;)
  20. RichieTwitchy

    Diver ID please?

    My paper field guides have yet to run out of charge, try and sell me something with a pop-up advert, freeze up, needed to reinstall, needed to reboot... and when I've dropped them they ain't cracked ;)
  21. RichieTwitchy

    Hello from an amateur twitcher. (i.d. South Derbyshire)

  22. RichieTwitchy

    Hen Harrier ?? North Lanarkshire, Scotland

    I've cropped the original photo - and only affected it with an automatic colour contrast to rid it of its incorrect hue (I do understand that 'messing' around with colours can be a hinder) - and placed it next to a picture of a female for reference.
  23. RichieTwitchy

    Common Gull? River Mersey Waterloo Liverpool UK (26/2/24)

    This guy was miles away hence the low quality photo. Please note: the photos are cropped from the originals and have had no extra editing. Gulls are not my forte, but reading up on the Common Gull, this seems to have a lot of the relevant features for a winter bird - mirrors on P9 and P10...
  24. RichieTwitchy

    Malaga, S Spain. Tern

    With regards to the colour of the bill - what you're seeing is the light coming through the bill where it parts. Regarding CT in Malaga in February - I'm no expert sorry.
  25. RichieTwitchy

    Malaga, S Spain. Tern

    As said by Butty - and a close up of your photo seems to back it up.
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