Add Two, Subtract One

[drplokta]

My coal tits are looking dubious, so I'll remove them from the list for now. But I saw (and failed to photograph) not only a chaffinch (hardly rare or unlikely) but also the mythical Russia Dock Woodland kingfisher (only a flash of blue across the pond, but there's not exactly anything else it could have been).

I did get a couple of much better photos of birds that are already on the list.

Here are a couple of cormorants, one of them hanging its wings out to dry:



And I can't really hope for a closer or sharper picture of a lesser black-backed gull than this one:



So the score is now 34 -- 32 birds (wren, chaffinch and kingfisher not photographed) and two mammals (fox not photographed).

Comments

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

As much as I'm loving seeing all these photos, I just showed them to my father, who exclaimed "Coal tit? That's not a coal tit!"

So I think you might be right there [grin] Apparantly the bird in that photo is a female Great Tit.

My coal tits are looking dubious, so I'll remove them from the list for now.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Roscoe's Mercy!
What a lino!!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You know, coming to this cold and not knowing context, the first few words of this post looked pretty duboius as well!