keps wrote: » I say,with a large degree of confidence that this is almost certainly a Greenfinch:)
Capercaille wrote: » Sadly an ever decreasing sight.:(
stevensi wrote: » I think you might have a little stint in that photo. Bird on the right is a sanderling but the other looks like a little st. What do other think?
keps wrote: » I knew that of course:p:p
stevensi wrote: » Where did you take these photos? Always a decent bird to pick up in Ireland!
Capercaille wrote: » 100% correct. Bird on left is juvenile little stint, you can see the white mantle V's. The bird on right is a sanderling in transitional plumage.
keps wrote: » Sincere Apologies for the disjointed way I have posted .... Just wondering then if the bird on the right in these photos might be a little stint- I must say I find it impossible to differentiate between similar looking birds
Zoo4m8 wrote: » Bonedigger, what a terrific sight..I haven't seen Golden Plover in our neck of the woods (wicklow coast) for over forty years and then it would be just a handfull with the much larger flocks of Lapwing which, incidentally, have started to reappear albeit in much smaller numbers.
