Blatantly a whitethroat!
To me it looks blatantly like whitethroat, on my screen the 'rusty brown wings' stand out like a sore thumb.
from what I can see on the picture, admittedly not much, it looks a lot more like a willow warbler or a chiffchaff, and certainly isn't safely identified. A front view wouldn't be necessary to confirm whitethroat, did it have rusty brown wings and a black tail with white edges?
Looks like a Chiff now
Another lesson in the benefit of putting up more than one picture!
La-di-la. I just don't know Jane. I'm convinced that this bird had a melodious song that wasn't that of a Chiff but maybe I'm just going batty.
On a lighter note, I did manage to nail the ID of this Wheatear (below) yesterday
Cheers
John
Is that primary projection not long enough to make it a Willow Warbler? Must admit WW was my gut reaction when i looked at the first pic
Jan