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Yellow bellied bird (1 Viewer)

Runestone

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Can anyone help me ID a bird I saw tonight please? I doubt it is anything special but I cant find it in any of my books. I am a novice at this so please excuse me if I am missing the glaringly obvious.

I saw it in a tree at Fairlop Waters Country Park in Hainault Essex. Some kind of spruce tree, I am no botanist (not a very good ornathologist either it seems!)
Sparrow sized
Yellow belly with a plain back of a browny sort of colour. No pattern to it.
There was a dark stripe through its eye.

I looked in my book and found a Wood Warbler but that sounded a bit uncommon from what I read and I dont remember seeing a white underbelly, just yellow. It wasnt a Greenfinch because I know what they look like.

Any ideas?
 
Thanks for your replies. I am still unsure what it was I saw. I dont think it was a yellowhammer because the back was one plain colour. It looked rather like the picture in the book of a willow warbler but I think what I saw was larger than described. Thats why I thought perhaps a Wood Warbler. I will just have to go there again and see if I can see him a second time (any excuse to go birding....)

Thanks again!
 
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