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Warbler ID, Help needed (1 Viewer)
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steveandsue
Active member
Any ideas people
Katy Penland
Well-known member
Hi, Steve, can't help with the ID, but you might have to be patient as I think almost every birder in the UK is at or coming home from BirdFair about now. 
Andrew Rowlands
Well-known member
Hi steveandsue,
Not the best photo from the ID point of view - not enough of the features needed for an easy answer - a quick guess would be Garden Warbler, likely to be wrong though!
Could you give us some details on how the bird looked in the field?
Cheers,
Andy.
Not the best photo from the ID point of view - not enough of the features needed for an easy answer - a quick guess would be Garden Warbler, likely to be wrong though
!Could you give us some details on how the bird looked in the field?
Cheers,
Andy.
StuartReeves
Local rarity
I think this is a Sylvia warbler of some sort but the angle of the photograph means that we can't actually see much of the bird to help sort it out. I'm not certain but overall I agree with Andrew that this is a Garden Warbler.
Stuart
Stuart
steveandsue
Active member
StuartReeves
Local rarity
Now it gets interesting ! Not a Garden Warbler, I now think that it is a Barred Warbler.
Stuart
Stuart
steveandsue said:
The second pic helps a lot - and shows the bird to be a juvenile Barred Warbler. That's a very nice find indeed and a great image! The main features are the dark barring on the undertail coverts and the thin pale double wingbars, which together with the overall greyish colouration and stout bill with a pale lower inner mandible all adds upp to Barred Warbler.
Rgds
Greg
StuartReeves
Local rarity
I should echo Greg's congratulations, Barred Warbler is a nice find as it is relatively rare in the UK. It is also nice that a BF ID question has actually turned-out to be a rarity for once !
Stuart
Stuart
steveandsue
Active member
I couldnt be sure as only got brief look through the lens as it flipped in front of me,the bird was in the Canal scrape car park at Spurn yesterday. Many Thanks Steve
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Just goes to show that the nice portrail shot sometimes isn't half as useful for id purposes as the partly obscured one!
James
James
stuart winter
My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Cups at WHL
What a great mystery bird photograph. The original profile shot creates a far more alert, inquisitive jizz than I normally associate with Barred Warblers. Even dark-eyed juveniles/1st autumn give a vacant, almost dumb impression, while the yellow-eyed adults look simply manic. The second photograph highlights some of the key Barred Warbler plumage feats: the pale fringed greater coverts and tertials along with scaly under-tail coverts.Great shots deserve to be published
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steveandsue
Active member
Just goes to show what a brilliant aid we have at our fingertips,full marks to BirdForum,and all who helped.Any help with getting it published,Mr Winter would be greatly recieved,as I havent a clue where to start?
Again Many Thanks Steve
Again Many Thanks Steve
