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You have found us. We are a secret group of crack birders who have turned our backs on the machismo, corruption, and backstabbing greed that constitute today's birding scene, and have united together to follow the True Path of non-competitive, collaborative and generally lovely birding-as-meditation-and-spiritual-growth. Consequently, we never see anything. Birds that land right in front of our noses, and which we can identify with our observer book, are written about here. Oh, and they have to be seen in - or from - the parish of Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, or on the walk round past East Somerton Church ruins and up the concrete track to Winterton Holmes (because it's a nice walk which we all do).
Taiga or RBF?
Tim's flycatcher on 19-20 September has been suggested by some to have been a Taiga, rather than a Red-Breasted. As we understand it the basics of IDing these is the eye ring (complete and all white in RB but not so clear above the eye in Taiga), the upper tail-coverts (all black in Taiga) and the bill (all darker in Taiga). More detailed ID stuff can be found here. Here's the bird again. What do you think? All comments welcome.
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