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New World birder needs ID of Old World bird (1 Viewer)
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It's a Garden Warbler
Phil Carter
Well-known member
Looks like Garden Warbler.
Phil
Phil
Ultra Lite
Well-known member
Thanks much.
dantheman
Bah humbug
Garden Warbler.... or..... Nightingale...
Apart from being a mainly featureless bird (actually this one actually seems to show lots of features lol), grey patch on side of the neck should rule out others eg Nightingale? (head pattern quite nightingale like - rufous crown above eyestripe, large eye????, long bill??), but then grey legs indicate Garden Warbler....
(And the tail looks like it might actually be a rusty brown colour....)
Messy posting, on the fence for reasons above, but could well be a slightly funny exposure of Nightingale IMO. But it does have the jizz of a smaller Garden Warbler...
Apart from being a mainly featureless bird (actually this one actually seems to show lots of features lol), grey patch on side of the neck should rule out others eg Nightingale? (head pattern quite nightingale like - rufous crown above eyestripe, large eye????, long bill??), but then grey legs indicate Garden Warbler....
(And the tail looks like it might actually be a rusty brown colour....)
Messy posting, on the fence for reasons above, but could well be a slightly funny exposure of Nightingale IMO. But it does have the jizz of a smaller Garden Warbler...
I'd go for Garden Warbler - though I take your point about it looking long-billed, the grey neck, face pattern, jizz etc looks good for GW. One feature not mentioned yet is gape colour, which is quite strikingly yellow in Nightingale.
OK, I didn't know that before I looked at some photos of both, so I have learned summat today
and I owe you a message Dan, sorry...
OK, I didn't know that before I looked at some photos of both, so I have learned summat today
and I owe you a message Dan, sorry...
dantheman
Bah humbug
The more I look, the worse I get on these ones - vowed never to get involved in GW/Nightingale ids last year - failed!I did wonder about the yellow gape - that part of the pic seems overexposed to me, so couldn't tell if it was present or not... agree, don't think it is though. Plus I forget how brown GW can be - the ones I see (if I see them) tend to appear to have been more greeny-grey.
nick scarle
Leo
Yes, Chiffchaff is out of the question, it's a Garden Warbler.
Nick
Nick
