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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacNara" data-source="post: 2371089" data-attributes="member: 23290">Thank you very much for replying DMW. If you think it's Moorland Chat, I'm sure you're right.  That's what I had it down as at first, but it looked darker and less contrasty than Moorland Chat photos I was sure of (one attached).The Parisoma was in Goba, so a little lower than the Sanetti Plateau. Either would be a new species for me. But the local guides' insistence that the Warbler was the Parisoma put me off. I think that if you haven't seen both the Brown and the Bale that you could tell the difference just from the book.I've lived in Japan for 30 years, and only looked at birds for the last ten years or so. Japan doesn't have that wide a variety of birds. Only a few Warblers, mostly in passage. I've seen Chiffchaff once in Britain in April last year, but I thought the strong lemon yellow colour indicated Willow Warbler (which I had seen once before, I thought in Africa). But I have no idea of the lemon colour balance of the two Warblers.By the way, what's the bird in pictures 2 and 3 (same individual) on this post? I thought it was Willow Warbler also. It's from just north of Addis.</blockquote>