stevethehydra
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Today at Salcey Forest:
1) and 2) (possibly not same individual) - Marsh or Willow Tit? Not sure if too out of focus to determine between the 2...
3) (again maybe or maybe not same individual) - presumably a rather dull-plumaged Great Tit? Didn't see a black chest stripe (although did on at least one individual in the same mixed tit flock) - possibly juvenile?
4) Hopelessly out of focus, but maybe just about possible to confirm Blackcap? (saw a clear Blackcap a few minutes earlier, but didn't manage to photograph it)
5) This one was very small (looked about the size of a Wren), flitting very quickly back and forth between bushes/saplings about 6ft off the path, only managed to snap one quick photo of it. Presumably a warbler, but i have no idea which one...
Also one that i didn't manage to photograph - a few minutes before the last warbler, i saw some smallish (bigger than a non-Great tit or a Blackcap, perhaps about Robin-size, if slimmer), streaky brown birds flying quite low along a ditch by the side of a path, which was full of cow parsley plants. Got within a few feet of 3 together in the ditch (first 2 flew before i got a chance to photograph them, then the third, which i hadn't noticed before flushing the first 2). Too slim to be Dunnock, warbler-like in general appearance (slim head joining smoothly with body, pointed bill, tail longer than a robin's but shorter than a pipit's). The first 2 looked redder and streakier, the 3rd plainer and greyer, but otherwise similar, and at least the last one had white outer tail feathers. Nearest thing in my bird book seems to be female and male (respectively) Whitethroat, but not certain as i didn't see any obvious white on any of them (though probably didn't get a particularly good look at the throat).
1) and 2) (possibly not same individual) - Marsh or Willow Tit? Not sure if too out of focus to determine between the 2...
3) (again maybe or maybe not same individual) - presumably a rather dull-plumaged Great Tit? Didn't see a black chest stripe (although did on at least one individual in the same mixed tit flock) - possibly juvenile?
4) Hopelessly out of focus, but maybe just about possible to confirm Blackcap? (saw a clear Blackcap a few minutes earlier, but didn't manage to photograph it)
5) This one was very small (looked about the size of a Wren), flitting very quickly back and forth between bushes/saplings about 6ft off the path, only managed to snap one quick photo of it. Presumably a warbler, but i have no idea which one...
Also one that i didn't manage to photograph - a few minutes before the last warbler, i saw some smallish (bigger than a non-Great tit or a Blackcap, perhaps about Robin-size, if slimmer), streaky brown birds flying quite low along a ditch by the side of a path, which was full of cow parsley plants. Got within a few feet of 3 together in the ditch (first 2 flew before i got a chance to photograph them, then the third, which i hadn't noticed before flushing the first 2). Too slim to be Dunnock, warbler-like in general appearance (slim head joining smoothly with body, pointed bill, tail longer than a robin's but shorter than a pipit's). The first 2 looked redder and streakier, the 3rd plainer and greyer, but otherwise similar, and at least the last one had white outer tail feathers. Nearest thing in my bird book seems to be female and male (respectively) Whitethroat, but not certain as i didn't see any obvious white on any of them (though probably didn't get a particularly good look at the throat).
