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Identify this Help with identification

Help with identification

Ozzy Osprey 31/07/2022 19:06

Can anyone help with ID. I'm not 100% sure what this is. It was on a feeder at Loch Leven RSPB reserve today. Thanks in advance for any help!

0 TeeJay 01/08/2022 11:53

Possibly a juvenile Lesser Redpoll Do you have any other views of it?

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0 Ozzy Osprey 01/08/2022 15:48

I've added another photo which my son managed to capture from the front. Not quite in focus but hopefully it will help.
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0 rspbailey 01/08/2022 17:11

I think TeeJay is right.
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+1 TeeJay 01/08/2022 17:35 in reply to Ozzy Osprey

Thanks to your son for the second photo. I think you can see early signs of the black mask around the bill which adults have. Also, some trace of colour appearing on the crown.

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0 Ozzy Osprey 01/08/2022 18:08

Thanks for your help Tony. Very pleased as it is a new species for us (my son will be happy to have made the telling photo contribution too!)
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