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06-01-2009, 05:14 PM
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Oops sorry folks - had a closer look at this! 
Female Subalpine looks better now.
White tail sides and clean undertail coverts
Very pale/white eyering with red(ish) orbital ring
Shortish tail |
06-01-2009, 05:34 PM
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Shearwater - you tantalisingly didn't say where the pic was taken!
Judging from your Wryneck avatar you're either a twitcher, or well travelled in Europe or perhaps very good at finding scarce birds in the UK. |
06-01-2009, 05:47 PM
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I'd go for female Subalpine Warbler too! |
06-01-2009, 07:19 PM
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muscardinus...all of the above...lol
The bird is a Lesser Whitethroat, the brownish tinge that may have led to thoughts of Subalpine are from the muddy water it was bathing in!
Close views of birds are notoriously difficult when we are used to staring at long range!!!! |
06-01-2009, 07:58 PM
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Well, I wasn't far off! 
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06-01-2009, 08:02 PM
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Hang on a minute!!!!!  Lesser Whitethroats have dark grey legs.....not orangey ones!!! (like the Whitethroat!)
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06-01-2009, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by sunnydale  Hang on a minute!!!!! Lesser Whitethroats have dark grey legs.....not orangey ones!!! (like the Whitethroat!) | Yes I'm not convinced it's a Lesser Whitethroat either as it should have dark not orange legs + the bird in the photo shows a red orbital ring which LW doesn't have. |
06-01-2009, 08:34 PM
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oh eck! Its certainly NOT a Lesser Whitethroat Shearwater! They have black/dark grey legs for starters and don't have brown tinges to tertials, nor a red orbital ring!.... juvenile LW have a dark iris not pale as in the pic although some can have slightly brownier paler legs although not this orange pale, but April is far too early for a juvenile anyway, the adults are just arriving then!
lesser whitethroat http://www.birdphoto.fi/lajikuvat/ku...sylcur107.html
It's too grey for a female Common Whitethroat and tertials/covs don't appear rusty enough for a male Common Whitethroat but perhaps it is a male C.Whitethroat with conjunctivitus and having a pale wing kinda day 
WHERE did you take the photograph? I might be convinced of a 1w male moulting into adult if you have one of it looking like it hasn't just come through the car wash 
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06-01-2009, 08:43 PM
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No way a Lesser Whitethroat with orange legs......... |
06-01-2009, 09:14 PM
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I'd say fem' Subalpine too and if it was self found in Britain Shear, very well done.
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