Several Id`s Required Please

[mightymaiden]

Here goes lol

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Cheers, any help would be appriciated.

[Bekki :)]

2. The bottom bird looks like a ringed plover

Dont know about the rest I'm afraid ... 4. could be a chiff chaff maybe?

Im not good with little brown jobs

[wildsusy]

Hi, not sure abot no. 1, the yellowness indicates a wood warbler, but could be chiffchaff or willow warbler, someone else will clarify!

2: the lower bird is a little ringed plover, the above a dunlin I think.

3: tree pipit

4: willow warbler (?) (possibly chiffchaff?)

5: very difficult to make out, looks a bit like a pipit of some kind.. what does everyone else reckon?

6: difficult to distinguish between chiffchaff and willow warbler

7:tree pipit or meadow pipit

[RKB]

Have you got a field guide?

1., 4. and probably 6. (bad pic) Chiffchaff
2. Dunlin and Ringed Plover (white wingbar rules out LRP).
3. and 7. Meadow Pipit (flanks rule out Tree).
5. This is so easy that it shouldn't need any help - look in a field guide or look in any garden!

Were none of the Chiffchaffs singing?

[mightymaiden]

Originally Posted by RKB

Have you got a field guide?

1., 4. and probably 6. (bad pic) Chiffchaff
2. Dunlin and Ringed Plover (white wingbar rules out LRP).
3. and 7. Meadow Pipit (flanks rule out Tree).
5. This is so easy that it shouldn't need any help - look in a field guide or look in any garden!

Were none of the Chiffchaffs singing?

Listen mate, fairly new to this so give me a break will you please.

[mightymaiden]

Cheers for the ID`s too.

[RKB]

Seriously, I am giving you a break. It's hard to learn how to i.d. birds if you ask people what every bird is and you never have to work it out for yourself. No matter how new to it someone is, a couple of those birds are some of the easiest to i.d. by looking at the bird for a few moments and then looking in the book. You obviously spent a while getting the pics, but spending a bit more time concentrating on the bird as well as getting the shot will tell you what the bird is. That's how you learn birds.

[Adam Cheeseman]

1 Willow Warbler IMO
2 Ringed Plover and dunlin
3 Meadow Pipit
4 Chiffchaff
5 Dunnock
6 Chiffchaff probably
7 Meadow Pipit

Cheers,

Adam

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

1 Willow Warbler IMO
2 Ringed Plover and dunlin
3 Meadow Pipit
4 Chiffchaff
5 Dunnock
6 Chiffchaff probably
7 Meadow Pipit

Cheers,

Adam

I agree and in reference to above posts I would say a significant percentage of ID requests we get here for small birds are ultimately dunnocks which to me suggests it's actually not that easy to ID when you're starting out.

[RKB]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

1 Willow Warbler IMO

Definitely a Chiffchaff - if you look at the primary projection it's much less than the length of the tertials. Compare with the Willow Warbler, where the projection is about the same length as the tertials: http://www.nature-shetland.co.uk/nat...um_%5B1%5D.jpg

It's also a bit too dull on the front end for a spring Willow Warbler.