ID help please - UK

[Aspire]

Hi

Any thoughts on this little bird please? Taken today.

Sorry about the poor pics, the first is best, however the second does at least show the tail (if you can just about make it out!).


Thank you

[Jonners]

Hello Aspire, and welcome to WAB. Your bird could be a Wren methinks.

[Jason Claxton]

Did it look like a Wren to you,was its tail stuck up?

[Aspire]

Hi, thanks to you both for replying and for the welcome.

Yes it did have a cocked tail, but, there was a Wren and a juv Cettis Warbler in the reeds but in my haste to try and focus the camera on the birds through the reeds, I'm not sure which I captured!

The pics are so poor (and I have little knowledge of Cettis) I can't seem to rule out either species, so I was hoping someone else might be able to from what little features can be seen.

Thank you

[Jason Claxton]

Um is a puzzler from those pics,I cant say for certain.

[Tracey.A]

Did you see any Bearded tits in the reeds?

Tracey

[ChrisJB]

It looks too pale and plain for a wren. Cetti's will cock their tail up too. However, I really can't tell from this. Did it call/sing at all? Cetti's have a really distinctive loud song.

Regards, Chris

[david156]

hi

How about female bearded tit?

[dunlin]

Difficult to tell from the picture. If it is cettis warbler im jealous ive spent a few hours today trying to locate one i didnt even get to hear it sing. Every one i asked had just heard it singing ten mins earlier
Just my luck.
regards mark.......

[Picidae]

It's a Wren. Cetti's have a much more rufous mantle and cold grey underparts. Bill is different shape too. The bird in the pic has rufous restricted to the tail (which is actually barred if you look closely) and to the wings with warm buff underbelly (as in Wren!)