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Recent content by wheatearlp

  1. wheatearlp

    Merlin is telling me this is a Mississippi Kite- but look at the forked tail

    I can't see much of a fork in either image. Possibly a very slight notch in the lower image, but that is OK for Mississippi Kite (afaik).
  2. wheatearlp

    Common or Honey Buzzard?

    Common Buzzard for, amongst other reasons: White band on breast in first & third photos. Multiple narrow tail bands in second photo. Bill & head shape & colour, particularly in third photo.
  3. wheatearlp

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    I wouldn't argue with that. You saw something, took photos/videos of the something & ID'd it later.
  4. wheatearlp

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    I was putting my point of view out there, but it's your list & you can add to it anything you want 👍 Re bins, there are some decent yet inexpensive models available. Try out a few if you are at a reserve with an optics shop or there is an optics retailer near you.
  5. wheatearlp

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    Yes, as I would have been looking at that specific bird, so I'd have seen it. If ID'd by someone else at the time I could at least spend time looking at the relevant ID pointers 'live' rather than later from notes/photos.
  6. wheatearlp

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    Not necessarily, if your focus was not on something in the background of your intended subject. No one has mentioned 'naked eye'. Plainly, seen is understood to include seen through optics. My interpretation of the OP is not that it was a record shot of a bird seen & to be...
  7. wheatearlp

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    Not in my book it's not. If I didn't see it in the field, then it won't go on my list.
  8. wheatearlp

    Timberhonger & Surrounds

    That is pretty uninspiring, but fair play for trying.
  9. wheatearlp

    Wild Bird

    Looks like a Great Tit. I'd share your qualms in catching it, parents were probably around & wondering where it went. Maybe too late to put it back. Unless a fledgling/chick is in immediate danger it shouldn't be 'rescued' but left to the ministrations of parent birds. Given where things have...
  10. wheatearlp

    River warbler or common grasshopper warbler?

    Well, that's something I've learnt today... you can ask questions on xeno-canto!
  11. wheatearlp

    Upton Warren

    I'll see if Dave has the full list list in a more user-friendly version than mine.
  12. wheatearlp

    Upton Warren

    The only photo I took during Saturday's All-dayer was of a female Beautiful Demoiselle, see attached. This, and a male Banded Demoiselle, were my first Odonata of the year
  13. wheatearlp

    Upton Warren

    Details attached relating to a darvic-ringed BHG seen at the Flashes on 27th April. This is only the second BHG recorded on the reserve from a Scottish ringing scheme. Photo also attached.
  14. wheatearlp

    Upton Warren

    That, of course, should be waders rather than 'wafers' 🤦
  15. wheatearlp

    Upton Warren

    Fairly quiet at the Flashes this evening. Wafers present were: Oystercatcher (2), Avocet (60+), LRP (4), Lapwing (3) & Common Sandpiper (2). Two Common Terns & the 1st S Common Gull also noted. Two broods of three Canada Geese & one, much reduced, of Mallard.
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