Rob Smallwood
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Where and when was No 1 taken?
The Firecrest said:I don't think the tail's right for Nightingale, and it's the wrong habitat.
Colin said:Surely the fourth pic on the first post is a Blackcap and not a Chiffchaff. Female Blackcap with the rusty brown cap or am I looking at the wrong pic?
HI Deborah,deborah4 said:Hi Colin
Think we're looking at the same pic see what you mean about the brown 'cap' but it's most certainly a Chiff Chaff: Note the whitish super (which does offset the crown), yellow/buff tones to belly and flanks, and tones of mantle (blackcap is much greyer, with much paler belly) etc, general confusion is normally with Willow - there's lots of other threads around to help with that, most reliable distinction would probably be primary projection if visible, but there are facial features that contribute, along with leg and bill colour (latter subject to occasional variation).
Hope that helps
Jane Turner said:1. Eye crescents
2. Greyish ear coverts
Jane Turner said:3.White throat with sharp demarcation to cream upper breast
Jane Turner said:No grey/brownish breast.
Jane Turner said:5. Wing coverts and tertials the most rusty part of the bird.
Jane Turner said:2 is a female Whitethroat and the Phyllosc is a Chiffchaff
Reasons why Whitethroat and not Nightingale
1. Eye crescents
2. Greyish ear coverts
3.White throat with sharp demarcation to cream upper breast
4. No grey/brownish breast
5. Wing coverts and tertials the most rusty part of the bird.
Also its very slim
Colin said:It can be very difficult with still pictures without jizz and without the bird moving through different light and angles. Then there is another problem with monitors and the way they show colours (this is a nightmare with gull mantles). I am using a laptop and colours vary even with the angle of the screen relative to the keyboard. Having said all that I can see how a Chiffchaff could come out of this. May be it's a Chiffcap!!!!
Now I need a B