Welcome

This blog is here to help in the identification of British Birds. Please feel free to add your pictures or provide comments as to what you think any of the birds featured might be.

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Godwit: Black-Tailed or Bar-Tailed?



These birds seen at Cramond (Just north of Edinburgh) on 20th January 2009.
Can you help?

Thursday 8 January 2009

Just to get things started...




This bird (About pheasant size) seen at Baron's Haugh nature reserve in Lanarkshire on 16th June 2008.

Any ideas?

The purpose of this blog

This blog is intended to help with British Bird identification.

I am not an expert in this field, but hope to link up here with people who can help myself and others put a name to a bird they have seen but are not confident in identifying.

I, for one, have spent many hours looking at photographs in books and on the web and still not been sure what it is I have seen. Sometimes a friendly voice can be a huge help in expanding ones knowledge.

Different people have different expertise and I hope to be able to bring these together so that we all may learn.