SPOTTED FLYCATCHER, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

  We can ID this bird as a Spotted Flycatcher as follows:  

• Whitish below with dusky streaking on throat and breast
• Brownish face and crown with streaks on crown, dark eye and weak eyering  
• Small, broad black bill  
• The small amount we can see of the wings is brown
• Brown tail    

   The Spotted Flycatcher is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 977.  

GREAT CORMORANTS IN FLIGHT, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

EURASIAN COOT, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK, MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

MALE FERRUGINOUS DUCKS, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

   We can ID this duck as a male Ferruginous Duck (at least the duck in the first two photos) as follows:

• Chestnut head, neck and breast with a diffuse black ring around the neck
• Dark upperparts with brownish flanks
• Conspicuous white eye
• Blue-grey bill that fades towards light grey towards tip, with small black tip (you can see black tip in second photo)
• Conspicuous white patch at rear 

   The Ferruginous Duck is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 976.

NONBREEDING LITTLE GREBE, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/20/2019

CETTI'S WARBLER, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

   We can ID this bird as a Cetti's Warbler as follows:

• Brown upperparts
• Brown, rounded head with a narrow pale supercilium over black eye, dark eyestripe and white broken eyering 
• Whitish to pale grey underparts
• Broad, brown tail 

      Cetti's Warbler is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 975. 

FEMALE EURASIAN SPARROWHAWK IN FLIGHT, SCHINIAS NATIONAL PARK,MARATHON,ATTICA REGION,GREECE, 10/10/2019

    We can ID this raptor as a female Eurasian Sparrowhawk as follows:

• Greyish underparts and head 
• Short, broad wings 
• The bird has the "no" neck look of a typical Eurasian Sparrowhawk in flight 
• Underwing pattern from a long distance: barred dull orangey and grey  

   The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 974.