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    Identification needed...South African bird

    I think you're right....I just looked up images of the juvenile L B E on google, I think you are spot on. The Swallow tailed one is similar, but I reckon you are right. Thanks to both.
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    Identification needed...South African bird

    Hello, I thought of this but The Little Bee Eater should have a black bib above the cinnamon-coloured underparts and the yellow throat????
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    South African Plover, id reqd. please

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in the West Coast Nature Reserve, between Cape Town and Langebaan, Western Cape Province? The closest I can come up with is a Kittlitz's Plover, or maybe a Snowy Plover....But I'm far from sure re either...
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    Other South African bird....id requested?

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in Pillansberg Nature Reserve, about 2 HRS from Pretoria in Gauteng Province (South Africa)? My best guess is a Southern Grey Headed Sparrow. Thanks, Andy
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    Identification needed...South African bird

    Hello, can anybody tell me what is this (attached) bird that I photographed 2 weeks ago in Pillansberg Nature Reserve, about 2 HRS from Pretoria in Gauteng Province (South Africa). From my book I think it might be an Olive Bush Shrike, although the bill looks a bit to thin, and the eye stripe a...
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    Somerset Birding

    I have a leser spotted woodpecker in my back garden! (Portishead BS20, North Somerset, up around the top of the hill). We have some very large mature trees, oak, ash etc.....and I have feeders on them. The woodpecker really likes my nut-feeder. I've had a green woodpecker before, and a greater...
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    Help id'ing gull. Somerset, UK

    What could these gulls be? I'm not good at identifying gulls, even with the aid of the RSPB website: At Nailsea Reserve a week or so ago, were a few Little Gulls. Also some very similar size, similar-looking gulls, also with the classic wintertime black "ear-patch" of the Little...
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    Somerset Birding

    REPLY TO OBM ABOVE: HELP no longer needed with White Egret ID Somerset levels please. Looking NORTH on Shapwick Heath 100 metres east of the footbridge, about 200 metres west of the car park where you could walk east to Ham Wall, a large white Grey Heron shaped Egret. Larger than a Little...
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    Somerset Birding

    This morning 2 purple Sandpipers at Battery Point Portishead, on the rocks by the lighthouse at high tide. This is the first time I have seen this sepcies, they are lovely birds
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    Somerset Birding

    Re the above....Sorry, I've just been advised to check, and actually it wasn't a mandarin but a Drake Wood Duck. Stil, Ive never seen one of them wild in the UK either.
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    Somerset Birding

    What could these gulls be? I'm not good at identifying gulls, even with the aid of the RSPB website: At Nailsea Reserve today were a few Little Gulls. Also some very similar size, similar-looking gulls, also with the classic wintertime black "ear-patch" of the Little Gull.....However, whilst the...
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    Somerset Birding

    Anyone seen any sign of waxwings in the Bristol or North Somerset area this winter?
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    Can u help identify?

    Friends I ws up in Llanberris pass last week, rock-climbing with a mate. We disturbed a bird that flew off with a strange call....sort of staccato 'clack, clack, clack' not like an ordinary bird call at all. Only glimpsed it as it flew off as I was trying to stay on the rock face...It appeared...
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    Southern African Forum

    Hello, I'd just like to say how pleasing it is to have a South African forum. Last year I went to SA for the very first time, and stayed with relatioves whom I'd never met before. Apart from them being all wonderful people, I was so impressed by the birdlife. When I was in Pretoria I was amazed...
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    Somerset Birding

    Thanks for the above, I'd gone at low-tide, I didn't realise that high tide is the best time. Are they a particularly shy bird?
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    Somerset Birding

    There were some sightings of purple sandpipers at Battery Point Portishead by 'clevedon birder' on his/her blog recently....Went to have a look today and unfortunately didn't see any. However, I saw a rock-pippit which is actually a first for me. I'd be really interested if anyone sees either...
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    Help identifying winter godwits

    UK. Can anyone advise me re.....2 days ago on flooded wetland in Somerset (Catcott Heath) i saw what i was sure were JUVENILE bar tailed godwits. I'm now having a big dose of second thoughts....might they have been female black-tailed godwits? They were definitely godwits, (slightly upcurved...
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    Somerset Birding

    Dear All I'm very sorry, my brain must have been taking a holiday yesterday during relaxing afternoon's birdwatching. The ducks at Catcott Heath were of course as you say Pintails. Sorry. I'll print a corrrection in the thread. Long tailed duck and goldeneye remain ellusive members of my wish-list!
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    Somerset Birding

    Birtle hide at Catcott Heath reserve today; teal, wigeon, long-tailed duck....and some young bar-tailed godwits! Never seen them before. Also a huge number of lapwings in the fields just south of the hide. At shapwick heath from Noah's hide saw 4 Bewicks swans...Not just my identification...
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    Feeders and bird food

    Hi I have a couple of questions if ayone feels they can advise me... 1. I've heard that bacon fat is good for birds in the winter....However, it's salty (especially from smoked bacon), so is this best avoided? 2. Seeds and seed feeders. (Groan). I have a mix including black sunflower, dari and...
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    Somerset Birding

    OTTERS NEAR PORTBURY? Met a wildlife photographer's assistant on the reserve.....He'd been sent to look for otters apparently seen in the Portbury dock itself, near the Port POlice Post.....In case anyone's interested. On that note, does anyone know if there are fish in any of those freshwater...
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    Somerset Birding

    Thanks, in that case I'll take your advice. By the way I went to Portbury reserve again yesterday. There was a substantial flock of wigeon out on the estuary, nearer to the Portbury dock area. I had to go onto the saltmarsh and use the spotter scope to identify them as they were at extreme...
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    Somerset Birding

    Hard to say, the wings were sickle shaped and curved right backwards. Also, long narrow tail. By the way, why not a hobby? Wrong time of year?
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    Somerset Birding

    I went to Portbury nature reserve yesterday (Friday) on the mountain bike. Most impresive place. I counted 82 lapwings on the pool near the saltmarsh. Also a Pochard. There is a juvenile little grebe on the pool near the Wharf Lane hide too. Main bird of interest was a raptor that flew...
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    Waxwing sighting

    Are the waxwings still around anywhere in/near Bristol? I have wanted to see one since I was 15 and I'm 50 now!
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