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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!
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    Black Guillemot Killing!!!

    Bloody dogs.
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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!
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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...
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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...
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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....
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    Green guy

    Hermit Thrush. Not in yhe UK I'm guessing?!...
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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!
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    Find a Wallcreeper

    Maybe we did it a weekend too early?......
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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!!!
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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...
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    The Autumn is Over..

    A Desert Warbler would be nice....
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    Find a Wallcreeper

    How about 3 weekends time - 20th/21st Nov?
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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...
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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
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    white wagtail or pied?

    Intermediates On the subject of possible intermediates, here's a bird I photographed today in Hampshire. Given the obvious demarcation between the black and grey on the nape it is a male. The grey upperparts appeared just a bit too dark for a 'classic' White. It was often accompanied by a...
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    Wagtail ID- Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, India

    Hi Richard, Looks to be a female Citrine. The grey mantle is a good pointer, Yellow Wags are greenish on the mantle. Dan
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    Interesting Chiffchaff, UK

    I spent a bit of time looking at Common Chiffchaff today and can say without doubt that the wings and tail are definitely longer on the potential Iberian, other observers have also commented on this. The wings are often held slightly drooped. Others have also noted that it tail-flicks far less...
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    Interesting Chiffchaff, UK

    I have heard the call only several times and would describe it as a 'peoo', veering towards a Wood Warbler but not as 'full' or 'fluty'. Can Iberian Chiffs pick up the call of Common Chiff and vice versa? I never heard a Common Chiff call from the bird. As for it possibly being a first-summer...
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    Interesting Chiffchaff, UK

    I've put another 2 minute sequence of the bird singing, on Youtube, taken yesterday morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZV30n7s74 Martin - thanks for doing the sonograms and the comments. It's the somewhat messed-up nature of some of the songbursts thats been bothering me. Dan
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    Interesting Chiffchaff, UK

    Thanks for the feedback so far. The bird was still present this morning between 11:00 and 12:30 singing almost continuously and showing well. The song basically consists of 3 sections: 1) a 'chiff' note, usually repeated 7-9 times and not differing much in pitch 2) a 'swit' note, usually...
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    Interesting Chiffchaff, UK

    Hi folks I came across an oddly singing Chiffchaff yesterday afternoon in the New Forest. Manage to get some video which can be seen/heard here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApKjLD9xVWk www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAlJsIuxVo Any opinions welcomed! Dan
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