willow warbler

Then I went off on the Willow Warbler hunt again and was so pleased to find him in more or less the same place, but in a different tree this time.

I've chased Willow Warblers all over the place and they've always been inaccessible. Just got a couple of pictures of them over the years. Hear them everywhere, but just can't see them. But there I was concentrating on the birds at the new feeders when their pretty song gradually infiltrated...

Not often I get a Willow Warbler posing in the clear at eye level. In fact, not all that often I see them at all, although I hear them every few steps through the woods in Spring. Supposedly the most populous bird in Norway.

I haven't got many more recent pics to post at the moment, so this is from 5 years ago. The image quality isn't quite what I'd like: it was taken with the predecessor to my current bird lens, which I was never very happy with. But it seems time to post something different from corvids...

It's not always so easy to tell Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs apart. They're often very busy, moving fast through dense foliage, so not showing the critical ID features as well as in this shot - here: pale legs, pale cheeks, clear breast color, long wing extension ... but the supercillium...

Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus

As for the pied flycatchers, the willow warblers were everywhere yesterday. They're quite uncommon here as breeders, so it's always a treat to see them during migration. Yesterday, some of them we're even singing, a real pleasure. Unfortunately, next Sunday is the opening of the hunting season...

Willow Warbler

Willow Warbler

Willow Warbler

My first of the summer as not been out for 3 weeks and what a joy to watch and listen to. All these birds within 5 minutes of home

hope you like it.

yesterday and today are the only days when Chiffchaffs and willow warblers overlap in there visits to Jeddah. probably they will coexist tomorrow at most then the Chiffchaffs will disappear and the willow warblers will dominate. hope you like it.

Have a great weekend y'all.

Taken in June 2018 at a drinking pool in the middle of a forest in Hungary (Paid hide) We were photographing song birds and had the most amazing day, lots of songbirds, a bathing nightingale, and within a couple of hours Sparrowhawk, Goshawk and Honey Buzzard, we also had calling Golden Oriole...

This willow warbler kept flying from one bush to the next and it took me some time to get a few shots as I walked by the lagoon.

I posted two shots of this bird a couple of months ago. A rather dark-legged individual. Thank you for your kind comments on my pictures, and good birding! John

Another shot of the bird just posted (ie the second of the two Willow Warblers I photographed on Thursday).

I drafted a long narrative about this, but it's a bit much for the Gallery. So, briefly, I saw this bird ten minutes after the Willow Warbler posted earlier, and they seem quite different individuals. Among other things, this one is greyer and less yellow, and the primary projection seems...