What
is this bird, I wondered as a small brown bird that looked like a
sparrow with a funny pattern on its head appeared...
We
were able to identify it as a corn bunting. Later on, we also spotted
a flash - a reed bunting. These were also new birds for me to sight.
Whilst the 'professional' zillion-dollar camera-sporting birders were
ticking off birds for their annual bird list, I was adding to my
all-time list of birds seen.
These
ID charts were helpful, as I did not carry any of my 10 birding books
with me. Liz and I spotted a number of birds unusual to our gardens,
and although she has better knowledge than I of their identities, my
eye sight is better than hers.
On
consulting my bird ID/info books back home while sorting my
photographs out, I found the corn and reed buntings depicted in such
a way that it could have been either in my shots - but the ID board
at the reserve confirms that the main sighting was a corn bunting.
Wow, those first two pictures are gigantic. :D
ReplyDeletei guess it depends on when i press 'save' or 'publish' as they tend to start huge and diminish in size as they fix themselves into position in the blog..... if i am quick they go big and if i am slow they go small...
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