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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Anyway, Britain's only diurnal tubenose wasn't gonna cause us too many problems. Make it harder please ;) 
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    AddicksAddict said:

    You're both wrong, this is a Fulmar.
    Fairey nuff.
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Deffo a Fulmar. Its bill is a giveaway. 

    How about this one....Whitethroat Sylvia communis - British Birds - Woodland Trust
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Well, it's got a white throat so I'm going to go out on a limb here, Nicholas, and say yellowhammer.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Darty Valiant said:
    Deffo a Fulmar. Its bill is a giveaway. 

    How about this one....Whitethroat Sylvia communis - British Birds - Woodland Trust
    Nightingale?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Shit. The Lesser/Non-Lesser Whitethroat Conundrum. Big guns 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Unfortunately, the name came up when I moved my mouse over the picture so it wasn't difficult.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Given the rufous colouration I'm gonna say it's a normal Whitethroat, plus it's singing openly, Lesser tend to be a bit more secretive 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314


    Let's turn the difficulty dial up a notch 
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Is it a fig tree?
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  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Foliage makes this a bit tricky and size also therefore deceptive.... Redwing? Seems to have the distinctivewhite stripe above eye, mottled belly and  yellow beak..... May be wrong though.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Congrats! Next one will be even tougher...
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    (that one snapped in Nunhead this spring)
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Leuth said:
    (that one snapped in Nunhead this spring)
    A redwing in July?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Here you go then, Leuth: 






  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Oh god it's a scrub warbler of some type, possibly a rare visitor. Let's think...it had better not just be a Lesser Whitethroat lol
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curruca

    Take your pick...
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    I’ll give you another angle and you’ll get it straight away. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    It is a Curruca, though, yes?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Grasshopper warbler?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Spotted flycatcher 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Oh ffs of course
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    You should have said to keep guessing though!
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
      
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Tough one. I don’t think it’s a twite, but that’s the best I’ve got. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    That would be my instant guess as well, but maybe I need to consider a few of the buntings... 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Are you guys just making names up here !! 

    “I’m embarrassed to say i originally thought this was a Crested Starch Hopper but then I notice the middle toe was slightly elongated so it must be a  Lesser Rumped Warbler “ 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    You're playing with the big boys now Mr One Lung 
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Wing Commander Leuth is nearest so far..

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