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    There were record numbers of Sparrowhawks on Fair Isle earlier in the month - see https://twitter.com/AlexPenn_1 - so hopefully all the corpses you're finding just reflects an unusually large movement rather than anything more sinister.
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    I just had a wee look at the ID thread and am happy to admit that you were right and I was wrong on the warbler. I didn’t think the legs looked particularly dark and wasn’t sure the primary projection and spacing was clear due to posture and image sharpness but am not going to argue when Mark...
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    North Sea Thread

    Interesting, as always, to see your sightings. Your Chiffy looks more like a Willow Warbler though. I wonder if it's possible that its scruffy forehead could be some sort of result of pollen being stuck to it - perhaps optimistic but it doesn't look warty like I thought birdpox looked.
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    North Sea Thread

    When else was this bird seen at Cotesbach between Sept 2020 and Oct 2021? My assumption would be that it breeds in N Norway and winters in England, with your September sighting being of it heading south. I assume it wasn't seen at Cotesbach during last summer.
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    North Sea Thread

    Definitely shearwaters and they look fine for Sooties to me (the paleness of their fronts is presumably down to reflected light). There have been good numbers in the North Sea too.
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    North Sea Thread

    Both Redstart species have been seen on North Ronaldsay in the last week (http://northronbirdobs.blogspot.com/?m=1).
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    North Sea Thread

    Superb stuff! I just had a quick look at Great Tit in The Birds of Scotland. I'd forgotten that Continental birds are reasonably regular on the Northern Isles (and probably on mainland Scotland too). It states that there were 7 records of Great Tits from N Sea installations in 1979-2004, so a...
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    North Sea Thread

    Or your second Shag in two days....
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    North Sea Thread

    Nice! Good to hear the gulls are still providing entertainment.
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    North Sea Thread

    The attenuated look of Iceland Gulls is certainly readily apparent in side-on views (both due to the longer primary projection and the slighter tertial step) and that rule-of-thumb (from the Collins Guide) can be applied. The views you're getting make that less easy though, with the relative...
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    North Sea Thread

    I thought I might as well just find the other gull id thread: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=337562 Not many responses so far, but that could be because I'm the only one who thinks it's most likely a Glauc! I've never knowingly seen an Iceland that much bigger than adjacent HGs, but...
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    North Sea Thread

    100% Glauc on that one!
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    North Sea Thread

    Or maybe not! I just had a look back at your Q&A thread Gander, to see whether you added the second mystery white-winger to the same thread, and I see that consensus is still lacking on the first bird. Did you start a new thread for the second one? - if you can post a link, I'm interested in...
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    North Sea Thread

    It does, doesn't it?- or at least as big. It surely can't be the same bird as pictured in post #115?
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    North Sea Thread

    Are you sure? Having been wrong last time, I'm still going to say that would be a big, stocky-looking Iceland. I'm surprised at how relatively tricky they are from above though - it's much easier to judge them structurally side-on or perhaps it's just photos compared to real-life. Your...
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    North Sea Thread

    I think it's more likely that a high proportion are first-winters, so could be male or female.
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    North Sea Thread

    I'd agree with Iceland. Doesn't look 'snouty' enough for Glauc, i.e. forehead too rounded and bill too short. Good to hear what's turning up out there. Hopefully a few more white-wingers are headed our way.
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