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An improvisatory, essentially indefensible, randomly configured tragi-comedy
(no great revelations are likely to be accrued from its consumption)
09 February 2007
06 February 2007
Diver sp.
Had a lovely Sunday afternoon in Pembrokeshire at the weekend. I wonder where the BBRC draws the line with a recently split crypto-tick when it shows only 50% of the features that were thought to be failsafe before we all started looking at Black-throats.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1rS4YqV3ydd0CHsFlPWY_2_c1HS-h_GKvXetc3gx1qtDVPTG1-D-GQ3ePN9-XioCR7yzrSieFSL_uq41-5RGCglI6WD__uD2n8LYnSicHXMnF_MNiU50-cz2EsoWpsKY2nquOg/s320/diver+c.jpg)
Quite small (though not as small as some would have you believe), thin billed, pale nape and lacking a white flank patch...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsLbp-UjCA4c8KKl1wn4AsfH0AzepTIo_UplUCsUQUjc5uMjuPxqcJ9aSlXY_rfliab6_2YzsyHzuOLdi0dP1_RU3OBSXASeE12wavfCy9YpnJVIYQWfgssSVQmFbLWA7Qoa0IA/s320/diver+d.jpg)
... also lacking a chinstrap, and anything like the vent-strap of the North Yorks bird (is that a thin brownish strap beyond the foot?).
I'm assuming the overlap zone between pacifica and viridigularis isn't swarming with hybrids.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1rS4YqV3ydd0CHsFlPWY_2_c1HS-h_GKvXetc3gx1qtDVPTG1-D-GQ3ePN9-XioCR7yzrSieFSL_uq41-5RGCglI6WD__uD2n8LYnSicHXMnF_MNiU50-cz2EsoWpsKY2nquOg/s320/diver+c.jpg)
Quite small (though not as small as some would have you believe), thin billed, pale nape and lacking a white flank patch...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsLbp-UjCA4c8KKl1wn4AsfH0AzepTIo_UplUCsUQUjc5uMjuPxqcJ9aSlXY_rfliab6_2YzsyHzuOLdi0dP1_RU3OBSXASeE12wavfCy9YpnJVIYQWfgssSVQmFbLWA7Qoa0IA/s320/diver+d.jpg)
... also lacking a chinstrap, and anything like the vent-strap of the North Yorks bird (is that a thin brownish strap beyond the foot?).
I'm assuming the overlap zone between pacifica and viridigularis isn't swarming with hybrids.
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