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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Well yeah a Corn Bunting then
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    I’ve never seen one sadly. 
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Keep guessing…..
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Lapland Bunting. Final gues
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    edited July 2021
    Fete bunting 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Emma Bunting?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Leuth said:
    You're playing with the big boys now Mr One Lung 
    Darty Valiant said:
    Wing Commander Leuth is nearest so far..
    It’s a Big Boy?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    Corn Bunting
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Lapland Bunting?
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Is it a femaleyellowhammer?
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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    FUCK me I could only name about 20 different bird species this morning. 
    Looks like there's hundreds of the little buggers 
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    It’s actually a female Cirl Bunting. The yellow underbelly is not easily recognisable in females. The pic could also be of a juvenile.

    Kudos goes to Wing Commander Leuth though for identifying as one of the Buntings.

    Cirl Buntings are in sharp decline and only a few pairs in The UK, which is its most northerly location. It can be seen in a few places in Devon/Cornwall.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Come on then. Thoughts?


  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Ciro Immobile? 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Black-Throated Ciro Immobile, to be more precise 
  • Darty Valiant
    Darty Valiant Posts: 618
    Looks a bit like a Loon
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    edited July 2021
    I photographed it in Scotland and thought it probably was a BTD, but wasn’t 100%. 
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    edited July 2021
    Darty Valiant said:
    It’s actually a female Cirl Bunting. The yellow underbelly is not easily recognisable in females. The pic could also be of a juvenile.

    Kudos goes to Wing Commander Leuth though for identifying as one of the Buntings.

    Cirl Buntings are in sharp decline and only a few pairs in The UK, which is its most northerly location. It can be seen in a few places in Devon/Cornwall.



    fck me I was going to say cirl bunting … I actually was. And before any other Mention of any other bunting. But when other buntings were dismissed I didn’t bother. Someone give me a like. I knew.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,277
    3 pages in, and I'm impressed no-one's mentioned jizz yet...
    (that's about the limit of my birdwatching knowledge, and even that comes from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H92EPyxDBk
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Worth a look:

    http://rspb.org.uk/reviveourworld
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    One from yesterday. I think some will get it pretty easily, but I hope it's a reasonable test at an intermediate level.  


  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Black-Tailed Godwit imo...
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
    Stig said:
    One from yesterday. I think some will get it pretty easily, but I hope it's a reasonable test at an intermediate level.  


    Some sort of godwit. We have eastern bar tailed godwits visit our shores from Siberia (!!!!) every year . They fly non stop and lose a third of their body weight or some such . Longest migration on the planet . Any further and they are practically on the way back. Incredible little fckrs. Love em . They do go back at the end of summer.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619


    What’s this ?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    edited July 2021
    This is where everyone says 'ooh ooh ptarmigan!' but it's actually a white-phase Willow Grouse EDIT no it IS a (rock) ptarmigan, viz. the following extract:  the male willow ptarmigan lacks the rock ptarmigan's black stripe between the eyes and bill.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    Leuth said:
    This is where everyone says 'ooh ooh ptarmigan!' but it's actually a white-phase Willow Grouse EDIT no it IS a (rock) ptarmigan, viz. the following extract:  the male willow ptarmigan lacks the rock ptarmigan's black stripe between the eyes and bill.
    Very good

    I currently have Gold Finches in my garden - lovely little things - re-filled our feeders this morning, and they were watching me and twittering away - I imagined them saying to each ‘about bloody time, you lazy git, should have done that yesterday’ !!
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    A lovely bubbling call they have too. Rightly known as a collective charm. The past 20 years have seen them go from an occasional sighting to ubiquitous in suburban London
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619


    Should be an easy one for you experts ?
  • Sevensix
    Sevensix Posts: 156
    Dartford Warbler?
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Dartford warbler. Not that you're likely to see one near Dartford. Heathland bird under a lot of pressure from habitat loss.

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