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  1. Stephen Dunstan

    Hello, I'd like to share an image of a bird, unusual for my garden. Not the best image, taken quickly.But any identification please. Sandpiper?

    They nest in Lancs and their numbers are augmented by an influx of Scandinavian birds, but they aren't as common as they used to be.
  2. Stephen Dunstan

    Pintail hybrid

    I am not sure what a Pintail x Muscovy would look like as opposed to a Mallard x Muscovy, but a Pintail x Mallard wouldn't have a tail like that.
  3. Stephen Dunstan

    Eastern Stonechat - Lincolnshire

    Well that escalated quickly...
  4. Stephen Dunstan

    Eastern Stonechat - Lincolnshire

    I don't know where you're going with this but I am always surprised how many eminent birders are current and former contributors on here, and others lurk but don't post.
  5. Stephen Dunstan

    Pipit sp

    It's a Rock Pipit, presumably Scandinavian. How does it stick out like a sore thumb, in my experience they're quite variable but this doesn't look particularly unusual.
  6. Stephen Dunstan

    Melanitta Fusca and Melanitta Deglandi difference ?

    And this which is about a female. https://www.birdguides.com/articles/britain-ireland/rarity-finders-white-winged-scoter-in-co-mayo/
  7. Stephen Dunstan

    Melanitta Fusca and Melanitta Deglandi difference ?

    This whilst mostly about a first winter drake includes stuff that may help. https://www.birdguides.com/articles/rare-birds/rarity-finders-american-white-winged-scoter-on-shetland/
  8. Stephen Dunstan

    Extinction of the slender-billed curlew

    Let's not even go there regarding the 1998 one...
  9. Stephen Dunstan

    Wrens - east coast of Scotland

    Fairly unlikely would be my view. First because Wrens aren't generally long distant migrants so not many come here from Europe. Secondly because the Wrens most likely to appear different in the field would be darker (Shetland, Fair Isle, Faroes), the difference between mainland British and...
  10. Stephen Dunstan

    Melanitta Fusca and Melanitta Deglandi difference ?

    Indeed, I just wasn't sure why it wasn't part of the question and was trying to hazard a guess...
  11. Stephen Dunstan

    Melanitta Fusca and Melanitta Deglandi difference ?

    The males aren't that difficult seen as well as in these pictures. The bill colours are different, as are the bill shapes and the white extends high up behind the eye on deglandi. Viewing a distant bird on the sea may be altogether different. Females are tougher and not sure the picture of...
  12. Stephen Dunstan

    Former member

    Yes there is. I guess unless the admins can see your previous history you may fall foul of the selling rules for a little while, something about being a member for a period and possibly having made a number of other posts before selling something.
  13. Stephen Dunstan

    How can we ban wildfowling at nature reserves

    Welcome to Birdforum. People who shoot birds do ban or try to ban birdwatchers in a number of places in the UK, so the world does work a bit like that. As you say coexistence is preferable, but the situation with regard to some species (Hen Harrier in particular) is rather more complicated.
  14. Stephen Dunstan

    Soghting at Dobbies Garden Centre, Stirling.

    I guess viewing it from an unusual angle for a Dunnock might make it look bigger. It's definitely as Phil says a Dunnock.
  15. Stephen Dunstan

    Snow Geese in the UK

    is the Lancashire bird now with Greylags at Martin Mere the same as the one seen with Pinkfeet on the Ribble Estuary. If it is that would highlight the difficulties with assessment. See also the Red-breasted Goose in the same area last winter first seen with Pinks and later hanging out with...
  16. Stephen Dunstan

    Where have all the Spotted Crakes gone (U.K?)

    You'll (r)egret it.
  17. Stephen Dunstan

    A one generation hobby…and a concern for the future

    In a recent thread a respected member of Birdforum said 'check those Arctic Warblers lads'. Nobody said anything, it didn't bother me in the slightest but I thought there might be comments and there weren't. Personally I'd cut people some slack if English isn't their first language.
  18. Stephen Dunstan

    Barnacle / Canada Goose hybrid

    I assumed the OP was asking is the bird a Barnacle x Canada hybrid, unless they've changed the title they don't seem to be saying it's a Canada. But yes bill colour, size and neck length all point away from Barnacle ancestry. [the text below the picture wasn't showing for me when I posted this...
  19. Stephen Dunstan

    ID request - small green bird, Spurn, England 2nd October

    I've been caught out by poor pictures before but it looks more like a Chiffchaff than a Reed Warbler
  20. Stephen Dunstan

    How can we ban wildfowling at nature reserves

    Is that a typo? Wikipedia says 1984 and I wasn't really following birding in 1974 when I was three...
  21. Stephen Dunstan

    How can we ban wildfowling at nature reserves

    Depends on the nature reserve. A good few years ago now a fundraising campaign was launched to acquire shooting rights on or adjacent to Leighton Moss. I guess if the rights for a site come up crowdfunding might be a way to address it. If wildfowlers own the rights it's fair game in shooting...
  22. Stephen Dunstan

    unidentified goose, Bordeaux

    Can anyone point to a Snow Goose of any age that looks like the bird in the OP without having to caveat the answer. It feels like the more pertinent question is 'what hybrid is it'?
  23. Stephen Dunstan

    unidentified goose, Bordeaux

    I'm not clear why this isn't a hybrid and googling 'goose garden public Bordeaux' didn't help change that thought.
  24. Stephen Dunstan

    Mallorca 2024

    Yes
  25. Stephen Dunstan

    Pectoral Sandpiper ?

    Fair enough. There isn't a report in Devon on Birdguides for over a year so I think the recorder would definitely be interested in the record.
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