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05-05-2007, 08:44 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Thanks vinnychameleon and glsammy - I think you're right. I was using my RSPB Handbook of British Birds to identify it and looking for birds with the black "burglar's mask". I went for the red-backed shrike based purely on the illustrations as the picture of the nuthatch has a white chest whereas the shrike's is a pinky orange. But on reading the text it says that the Nutahtch has "buff underparts, chestnut on flanks". And I think you're right about the beak too Graham. Pity the tail's hidden as that would have been a dead giveaway.
I'd better ask a Gallery editor to correct the title and move it to the appropriate section. 
Dave P.
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05-05-2007, 09:53 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Didn't shoot any new birds today, but my bird of yesterday was this red Legged Partridge, i just love them, a natural comedian if ever there was one.  |
06-05-2007, 05:36 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
My bird of the day was undoubtedly the day-flying Barn Owl which I saw off and on for over an hour this morning at Abberton Reservoir in Essex as it hunted around the adjacent fields.
Luckily for me, it occasionally needed a rest and perched up for a photo ....  
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07-05-2007, 06:32 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Another new one for my collection but after my little Nuthatch/Red-backed Shrike mix up (  ) I'm not going to rush in with an ID for this one. I think it's probably a Linnet but would be grateful if anyone could confirm or correct that.
Sorry, it's not a very good shot again - I had to boost the exposure a couple of stops in RAW processing and it's a heavy crop too... 
Dave P.
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07-05-2007, 06:43 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
My bird of the day was a Yellow Wagtail on the road... about ten feet from me as I stopped the car. He let us watch for five minutes ... then flew off... around the corner I saw a second YW. Very pleased with that. Another first for me. Sorry no pix.
jaki
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07-05-2007, 08:10 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
My bird of the day is closely contested between sandwich terns and a rock pipit both firsts for me  . |
08-05-2007, 09:10 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Edge of the New Forest, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
My birds of the day are Hawfinch & a pair of Crossbills with 2 fledglings in tow. |
08-05-2007, 11:31 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Letchworth Garden City
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
Mine is a jay seen in a neighbour's garden this morning. Not an unusual bird, but one I really like and have never seen round the gardens here before. And the neighbours got a rare sighting of me in dressing gown and binoculars. Unfortunately my resident garden magpies didn't like the look of it - the jay, that is. They are used to my dressing gown. |
08-05-2007, 12:38 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
........is not a kestrel, definitely not, or is it, no, certain, it's
A Hobby.
In fact it's two of them, and between flights they have the good manners to perch very still for a long time to give us a really good look.
Seen on Saturday by the firing ranges on Chalk marshes, and they looked settled in for the summer. Could they be a pair and actually breeding there? |
12-05-2007, 04:54 PM
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| | | Re: Bird of the day!
It's got to be a Lapwing! We have got two nesting pairs in our area.
Also, robins: we have a nest with three chicks... in our green house! So sweet! They've apparently flown now. Sarah | | | |
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