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Old 03-05-2006, 03:18 PM
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Re: Warbler Id Please

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton
Wow this is a tricky one! I think you are right to discount grasshopper warbler the bird just isn't brown or streaked enough and is not as delicate. Chiff chaff but the bill seems too heavy and the bird a little bulky, too grey for a willow warbler, Garden Warbler? but then the bill seems a little long.....
It's surely the wrong season for a Juvenille Garden Warbler....
Some exciting kind of pipit?
At this point I admit defeat.....
Meant to write juvenille barred warbler not repeat the garden warbler thing.....
where in the country was this taken? and what kind of habitat was the bird in?
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