moustached warbler ? (1 Viewer)

For several years I've been holding this bird as unrecognized. Some features point to moustached warbler. or not ? ? Can this bird be recognized at all?
Please help

Where and when? Dark cap and legs plus seemingly short wings do look promising for Moustached.

Althogh the wings seems to be short, Im not convinded that this bird is not a Sedge warbler. The colours look better for this species than for Moustached, and I suspect that the pictures are of a quality that they can be misleading (no offense!) Some Sedge warbler can show a very blackish head pattern and I have the feeling that this bird is one example of them. See for example here : http://www.tarsiger.com/images/antero/Acrsch111932Hb.jpg

The pale wingpanel is also better for Sedge.
The colour of the legs are still within the variation for Sedge.

I have only experience of western Moustached warbler, but all were very striking birds (when you see them in a book, you think its difficult, but each time I saw them I thought "whow, what a disctive bird, almost by colour alone"). I dont know if this is also true for SSP mimica.

So this might well be a Moustached Warbler of this SSP, but if if the picture was taken in Western or Northern Europe I put my money on Sedge Warbler (but not to much!) or leave it unidentified

Alexander Stöhr

Many thanks for your comments. Probably the last the last offer will remain the best

Michał Jaro;3774928 said:

Many thanks for your comments. Probably the last the last offer will remain the best

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You still haven't told us where it was?

right - sorry, it's Southern Poland, May 11th

It was in Poland where the species would be quite a rarity I suppose. So, based on these pics I would not conclusively ID it as a Moustached. Lighting is also not the best...

Now I'm sure to put it away to the "unrecognized". Thanks!