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BillN

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Is this a young Blackcap?
 

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Thanks Lou - how about these, hanging around with the above, just below them

Blackcaps?
 

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and the 3rd Warbler within a few yards of the other two

young birds?
 

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i don't know how many different birds these are but all look like melodious warblers to me.
edit: ref. to post 3.
 
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i don't know how many different birds these are but all look like melodious warblers to me.

the second set are all images the same bird

the third set are all images of the same bird

Initially I thought the second set were Melodious warblers - but they seemed a little too dull ....... but we have melodious warblers around, as well as Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps

the third set I had no idea which warbler as it is a very young bird

just a few yards away we have a Mulberry tree and when I was taking the above images, all in our garden and within a few mins of each other, there were a couple of young Blackcaps, (both with brown heads), eating from the tree.

Here's the Blackcap, (in a Bay tree) ......... for about 30 mins there seemed to be Warblers all over the place!!!
 

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Apart for the very last bird which is indeed a Blackcap, all the birds look like Chiffchaffs to me.
 
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