Apologies for a ‘non sighting’ post but if anyone is getting bored by this windy, wet weather, then here’s something to keep you awake.

Do you want to practice your Bird ID skills? If so see how many birds you can identify at:

http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/birds

Over the past few years I have photo’d over 210 species of birds in the UK (about half in the Glamorgan area) and if you open each gallery in the ‘right size’ window you can see each pic without the title of the bird. See if you can ID each bird. I suggest you start with the ‘Other Passerines’ gallery – where you will find most species have more than one shot (but not all). Obviously it is not always easy to ID a bird from one photo. This is aimed more at those of you who are on the lower rungs of the Bird ID skills ladder (like me!!!) but there are a couple of birds that may fox even the best amongst us – and one in particular where the ID is wrong (no clues yet).

There is a separate set of galleries that deal with each species of UK Gulls but one shot of each species in the ‘Seabirds’ Gallery.

To open each Gallery, go to the site via the link above and click on the thumbnail and then when that galleries thumbnails open, quickly click the first one (as the species names are there!) to get you to the best viewing option. Resize the window so you cant see the species name (you only need to do this once). Hope this makes sense! Have fun.