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23-08-2008, 08:28 PM
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Hello!
Spent a glorious Friday around Porthcawl, Wales. Was so nice to see the sun for one whole day. Came away pretty successful with various improved images of birds, including oystercatcher, ringed plovers, and turnstones. But I have a few that I need to verify the ID of, and one that I'm not really sure of at all.
The first two are what I believe are common redshanks as opposed to spotted redshanks, and the last image I have come to believe is a juvenile or female wheatear. There were loads of these suspected wheatears, but no males in sight??  Of course that doesn't mean anything, I simply must have missed them. Anyway, I'm looking for confirmation on the last one in particular.
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23-08-2008, 09:04 PM
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Correct on all counts I reckon, lovely shots too.
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23-08-2008, 09:06 PM
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Last one looks like a Wheatear, Perhaps a juvenile, the others look like Redshanks but that is just a guess. Just watch someone come on and shoot me down now 
Oops just read all your post now and you already said that
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23-08-2008, 09:13 PM
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I agree with your ids, nice shots! Also I'm not sure whether you knew this already but in the autumn male Wheatears are a buffy colour, similar to the females, and the black through their eye is also less extensive so they would've been quite easy to miss among the females and juveniles. I think your Wheatear may well be a male although probably a juvenile, it seems to have a bit of black around the eye.
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23-08-2008, 10:26 PM
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Great photos and the ID"s above are correct.
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24-08-2008, 08:04 AM
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Really want to thank everyone for their help! Great to know I wasn't off the mark with the ID's. And thanks to Guy for that bit of information, I didn't know that about wheatears. I'll have to go through the other photos with that in mind.
I'll pass all your compliments on the photos to the photographer, my husband  All my photos were not quite up to par this time around. |
24-08-2008, 11:48 AM
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Great shots! The last shot of the Wheatear, I think is a male showing autumn plumage. I'm probably wrong, as I usually am! 
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24-08-2008, 05:31 PM
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Great Pics Dae well done
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26-08-2008, 06:15 PM
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Lovely shots Dae
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26-08-2008, 08:39 PM
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26-08-2008, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  | Just click on the little x
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26-08-2008, 09:29 PM
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Super pics, Dae!
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27-08-2008, 08:18 AM
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Thank you all again for the lovely compliments on the photos. I'll pass them on to my husband, as they're his |
27-08-2008, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by deer boy Just click on the little x | What little x |
27-08-2008, 01:46 PM
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27-08-2008, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Dae | Hey....I can see them now..
Nice pics they are too. |
27-08-2008, 04:15 PM
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there are seagulls and crows that live in the area
and one day a young gull apeared and it was making a right strange noise
are they meant to sound like that? |
27-08-2008, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh What little x | Ok you've seen the pics now but if you look at Dae original post, below the word Thanks!! there are three little boxes with red x in them.
Click on them & the picture should appear, or at least it did for me
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27-08-2008, 05:08 PM
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They're not there for me either, and I saw them originally when I first posted them. I don't get it? Perhaps mozilla is being difficult again. |
28-08-2008, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Dae They're not there for me either, and I saw them originally when I first posted them. I don't get it? Perhaps mozilla is being difficult again. | I can't see them either - I'm using mozilla Firefox too, so perhaps it is something to do with that browser. |
28-08-2008, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete Collins I can't see them either - I'm using mozilla Firefox too, so perhaps it is something to do with that browser. | I am on firefox too, but my son said the link to the pics doesn't exist.
If you click on the first post quote you can see the url.
page not found comes up..
Still cant see the little x though.. |
28-08-2008, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by havanatiz there are seagulls and crows that live in the area
and one day a young gull apeared and it was making a right strange noise
are they meant to sound like that? | Hi Havanatiz, young gulls are relentless at begging and do make some very strange sounds when doing this.
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28-08-2008, 06:22 PM
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I had a go at viewing the thread in IE and I can't see the photos I posted in the opening post - BUT I can see the little red x's that were mentioned earlier.
Mozilla doesn't let me see red x's or anything in the original post.
Both IE and Mozilla see the photos when I reposted them later on. And I KNOW that the images were working when I first posted, as I and the ones who identified my birds at the beginning saw them. It's really weird, and I dont' understand. |
28-08-2008, 06:52 PM
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[quote=Dae;324712]Hello!
Spent a glorious Friday around Porthcawl, Wales. Was so nice to see the sun for one whole day. Came away pretty successful with various improved images of birds, including oystercatcher, ringed plovers, and turnstones. But I have a few that I need to verify the ID of, and one that I'm not really sure of at all.
The first two are what I believe are common redshanks as opposed to spotted redshanks, and the last image I have come to believe is a juvenile or female wheatear. There were loads of these suspected wheatears, but no males in sight?? Of course that doesn't mean anything, I simply must have missed them. Anyway, I'm looking for confirmation on the last one in particular.
Thanks!!
[url=http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/showphoto.php/photo/68156] [/ur
oooops Sorry...
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