| Re: Can anyone confirm id?
Hello Nick and welcome to WAB it's a great site I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
The trouble with this ID is the shot is taken in dapple shade. In my earlier posts I was uncertain between Garden Warbler and Nightingale but chose Nightingale for the following reasons:- 1) the legs seem to be light coloured, GW are dark
2) the bird gives me the impression of being chunky, GW are a smaller size similar to Willow Warbler.
3) the colours, imo, are brownish-grey, typical Nightingale
4) the pale eye ring is less obvious in the GW
5) and finally I do see a hint of the rufous colouring toward the rump hinting at the Nightingales most obvious feature.
It's a difficult one but I'm sticking to my original thoughts of Nightingale, at least we can assure glsammy that it's definetely not Willow Warbler or Chiff-chaff |