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03-04-2008, 11:49 AM
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| | | Mystery birds
Just spotted these on the Birdtrack site, any ideas? The first one may be some sort of aberrant Great tit but the second???    |
03-04-2008, 11:52 AM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
Wow those are some interesting ones you caught! I'd have to say the first two must be some sort of leucism, I've never seen birds like 'em. The last one, unless I'm completely off base here, looks like a dipper. But in a garden?? Do you have a stream or something nearby? |
03-04-2008, 11:53 AM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
Hi Dae, no, not my photos so I don't know the locations. I too thought Dipper initially but the head and back look wrong to me. |
03-04-2008, 11:54 AM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
The top two are Snow buntings. The other i dont have a clue. |
03-04-2008, 12:12 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
Im not feeling snow bunting at all...
maybe aberrant/ leucistic Chaffinch...
and i would have said Dipper?
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03-04-2008, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter  Im not feeling snow bunting at all...
maybe aberrant/ leucistic Chaffinch...
and i would have said Dipper? | I really arnt hot on birds so ill take your word for it. |
03-04-2008, 12:29 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
Tail's far too long for Dipper and the beak looks wrong too. I reckon it's a White-throated...... something  |
03-04-2008, 12:33 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
leucistic female blackbird?
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03-04-2008, 12:48 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
Don't know the first two but I thought the last one was a dipper, but the underbelly looks reddish in the photo and dippers are completely black with the white bib.
My house backs onto a river, which has lots of dippers and they have never ventured into the garden and I'm also fairly sure they only eat insect and larvae. |
03-04-2008, 04:12 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery birds
I'd guess that the first 2 show a leucistic Chaffinch.
The second is a White-throated Laughing Thrush, must be an escape from somewhere nearby, they are native to Asia.
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