Can someone confirm this? I'm thinking Lesser-spotted Pinion rather than Lunar-Spotted although I have had both in the past.
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Mark Griffiths, Garsington, Oxford.
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Lunar-spotted for me, Mark. Not the clearest of images but it is sitting wrongly for Lesser-spotted and it doesn't have the whitish cross-lines or the obvious pale area with a darker spot in the middle (looking a bit like an air force roundel) that should be between them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. I came to the same conclusion, not sure why I went for lesser-spotted (which I've also had), different ground colour, lack of that bullseye, no pale cross-lines - homed in too much on the white blotch I guess.
ReplyDeleteIf it helps, I haven't seen Lesser-spotted yet this year. I have had the odd earlier record but they usually start in the second half of July and go on into August.
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