Any twitchers in here?

Pudsey Bear

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I was sitting by a French river this afternoon and there were a few birds I'd not seen before, not in our bird books as they're UK based.

I should have taken a picture but it didn't occur to til later I've just been back down with liz but not there now.

About the size of the female blackbird or slightly smaller and a similar colour but it had a distinctive tail, I can only describe it as like the helicopter seeds from a Sycamore tree but separated of course.

Very quick in flight and darting about, not a Swift or Swallow I think.
 
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I was sitting by a French river this afternoon and there were a few birds I'd not seen before, not in our bird books as they're UK based.

I should have taken a picture but it didn't occur to til later I've just been back down with liz but not there now.

About the size of the female blackbird or slightly smaller and a similar colour but it had a distinctive tail, I can only describe it as like the helicopter seeds from a Sycamore tree but separated of course.

Very quick in flight and darting about, not a Swift or Swallow I think.
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Hmm.

Smaller than a female blackbird, but same colour? How much smaller? With a forked tail or a "splayed" tail? No other colour apart from brown? :unsure:

You're waxing a tad too lyrical, Kev, with the "like helicopter seeds from a sycamore tree but separated" :rolleyes: :ROFLMAO: 🤷‍♀️
 
All Finches have a tail similar to what you saw. Most are smaller than what you say but some are bigger, like a Bullfinch for example.
 
The pic is a Corsican finch, I just used it to show the tail. If the tail is correct then as Maingate says, a female bullfinch or hawfinch would fit in terms of colour and size as they are the largest finches.
 
Thank you, we get Finches all the time on the feeders, but not that one so didn't recognise it at all.
 
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