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Angus W

Birding walk down to Radley yesterday morning - 41 species seen/heard. Started well with within 10 paces of the front door. Light was still a bit dim but it sat still long enough for a couple pics.

Goldcrest in a lilac tree. UKs joint smallest bird. Distinctive gold stripe edged by black on crown of head. Bird facing almost straight on to viewer.
Goldcrest in a lilac tree. UKs joint smallest bird. Distinctive gold stripe edged by black on crown of head. Bird facing and to right of viewer.
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Angus W

Lots of and about.
Also a first encounter with @NearbyWild who has nice video of fieldfare drinking from puddles just before we met. youtu.be/nbVTaTHeZCo?si=f1qK7D

Redwing in flight (left to right) against clear blue sky. Thrush family but smaller than a song thrush and with distinctive pale stripe above eye. Orange/red patch below wing not too evident in this bird
Fieldfare (thrush family) in upper branches of tree (ash I think) with blue sky behind. Pale chest with brown speckles on upper part, and grey head.
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Angus W

As usual were about; occasionally being moved on by corvids. Patterning is essentially the same across m/f but I've been told the notch in tail is often deeper on males. So 1st image - m? & 2nd f?- but tail is more spread on the 2nd image??

Red kite and jackdaw in flight against clear blue sky.
Red kite in flight against blue sky. Wings and tail spread wide.
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Angus W

Don't see stonechat here so often but there were a pair amongst the spent sunflowers left to stand by Lower Farm - also enjoyed by linnets and goldfinches too.
Highlight tho was yellowhammer first sighting for the year

Stonechat (m) perched on top of old sunflower. Weight of flowerhead has been stem over - stonechat is at top of arch.
Yellowhammer (m) - bright yellow bird perched in topmost branches of tree in hedgerow.
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Angus W

Back down to the river and a pair of egytian geese flew over. Strange to then see one alone as I started a return along the river. But then saw the pair across the river. Also reed bunting a little far off across the water, and the joy of skylark soaring above me.

Lone Egytian goose in field adjacent to river thames. A little smaller than Canda and greylag geese and with distictive eye patch
Reed bunting (f) on arc of bramble stem in the sunshine on the far bank of the river
Skylark on the wing against clear blue sky.
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JonasE

@AngusW None of the books (checked 3) I have even dare to mention the differences between male and female Red kite. At a stretch they do mention how you can tell juveniles and young adults apart from older ones.

Possibly the female have slightly darker colours, and is somewhat heavier (but I never have scales around when out in the field 😜).

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NearbyWild

@AngusW Many thanks for your kind comment about the video Angus! There were a lot of Redwings there two days ago, along with Yellowhammers and Reed Buntings, amongst others! You would have obtained much better images than I did!

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