Stonechat
It’s a male Reed Bunting - Corn Buntings are your archetypal Little Brown Jobs with no distinct plumage pattern I love Pett Level - i Used to go down there a lot when I lived in Brighton
Reed Bunting
Looks nothing like a Stonechat!
Note the lack of face stripes and the orange breast:
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Yeah, who gives a hoot.
Thanks. Makes sense at they were in among the Reeds.
Thanks. I'm struglling on a lot of little bird id's. Not only the differences between male and females on some species, but also winter vs breeding plummage. Hence why I gave the month I took those shots in.
Yep, Tree Pipit. Nice photo!
You can break it to her gently...."You know that bird in the garden, your favourite? Well, it turns out it's not a Turtle Dove. Oh yeah, it's also dead".It's a sad day at Wz Towers.
I got up this morning to see a few feathers on the lawn outside the bedroom window and figured that our regular sparrow hawk had taken another pigeon. Miss Wz (who is on a visit from Oz) was out in the garden this morning and found the remains, coming back to tell me she thought it was Mrs Wz's favourite bird, a very pale cross between either a ring necked dove or, as Mrs Wz insists, a turtle dove which she had been trying to hand tame with various seeds.
I'm sure the foxes will see off any remains tonight, but what should I tell Mrs Wz, it's like the Serengeti out there in darkest Westdene
Thanks. Aside from location, the Pipits are very hard to tell apart for me. I have seen Meadow Pipits before, but only assuming that on their location.
