First bird post. Little Bittern / Hoopoe / Chiff Chaff/ Azure Winged Magpie + more

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Apart from a thread to ID a Partridge (how embarrassing,) these are the first bird photos I've posted up, so comments and critique will be appreciated :)

I just wish I could have got lower down in a lot of pictures, as they seem to be from above, but because of the way a lot of the lagoons were made, they are sunk, with all standing spots being roughly 1 metre above water level.

These are all from the past week, before that I'd never really photographed a bird before. In the past week I managed to spot / ID (with help from the internet) 34 types, there are a few I could ID though which I'm going to post later and see if someone can help me :) The IDs might be wrong so please correct me if they are.

Before the past week I was never really into birds, but I am now, and am off to Centre Parcs tomorrow for the week where they have what's apparently quite a good bird hide, so any tips I get I can use there, probably wont spot any of the birds above though.

Anyway life story over, here's a few of them.

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Hoopoe by ACW#, on Flickr


European Chiff Chaff by ACW#, on Flickr


Azure Winged Magpie by ACW#, on Flickr


Greater Flamingo by ACW#, on Flickr


Little Bittern by ACW#, on Flickr


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the "Pied Osprey" is actually an Avocet.

some lovely pictures there, well done!
 
Pelly said:
the "Pied Osprey" is actually an Avocet.

some lovely pictures there, well done!
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Thank you :)

I had avocet written down but didn't check my list when naming them! It's the bird which is the rspb logo isn't it! Thanks, I feel a bit silly now! Is the pied bit right?
 
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Big Andy said:
No just Avocet. Where were these taken?
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Ok thank you.

These were all in and around Ria Formosa park, in the Algarve. We were staying in Quinta Do Lago. Beautiful place and a silly amount of birds.
 
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