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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hannu" data-source="post: 1279494" data-attributes="member: 19244">This last claim in this sentence can be rather debatable! It's not so clear, does eye-ring broken in the front of and behind eye. The second pic (bf2) shows that eye-ring isn't broken in the front of eye.I really wonder your detailed colour analyses from these pics, particularly when you wrote later that bird being in shade and therefore you can not see e.g supercilium, only the hint of it. I think that it's almost impossible to say what are the real colour tones of bird in these pics. I think that we can say squarely, that upperpart is darker (brownish) and underpart is paler. That kind of hint is visible also in the follow TN mentioned earlier:<a href="http://www.tarsiger.com/images/upppe/luslus1viro25.6.2006peteruppstu.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tarsiger.com/images/upppe/luslus1viro25.6.2006peteruppstu.jpg</a>But I admit that the variation of supercilium is rather wide in 1cy Reed Warbler.  But still it looks rather odd to my eye. But I think that this case is probably better to leave identify: it's Reed or TN to me. I still wonder why this bird has not e.g. any(?) hint of yellowish soles. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />  :t:</blockquote>