This chap trying to get our attention at High Force the other week.
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Today at Rainham Marshes: cold, grey, tripled my lifetime sightings of a barn owl within 30 minutes of getting there, then as I was rushing out of the rain a lone curlew flew past. Add in fieldfares, three marsh harriers and a hovering kestrel and that’s a good day.
(The northern boardwalk is still shut but they’re diverting walkers along what, I guess, used to be a maintenance path for vehicles and reserve staff.)
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What’s the wader? In the UK I’d suggest a common sandpiper but being where you are, it could be anything! Also is the other one a hamerkop?
Oh, I didn’t even question it! I just lazily thought sandpiper too. Checking my book now and I think you’re right. 
Yes, hamerkop, 2/2! 
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I had an immature Cooper’s Hawk hanging about the backyard yesterday. Super camouflaged against the tree bark. No photo 
It turns out I have set up my bird feeders perfectly for these hawks to swoop down and grab a meal. Which is a nice little bonus for me but maybe not for the sparrows….
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I took a quick pic of ‘a pair of egrets’ flying over the other day, only to later realise that they were my first spoonbills too!
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Shite photo time from Benjakitti Park in Bangkok. Pics should be of a black collared starling, brown shrike, magpie-robin, a Malaysian pied-fantail, and a large-billed crow. Was a lovely hour wandering around. Also saw an asian koel, a greater coucal, white breasted waterhen, scaly munias and some javanese pond herons.
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A rare visit to the coast today so decided we were overdue some terrible heavily-zoomed and cropped phone photos of quite common birds.
This lot were gathered quite nicely in a little group. I think a few turnstones and a little sanderling around the oystercatcher.
There were loads of the little sanderlings about. I think they might be one of my new favourite birds, constantly charging back and forth about the place in a blur of little legs.
This one was pretty inseparable from his oystercatcher pal though.
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Really like this one, the reflection is really cool
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