Chiffchaff

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Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on September 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM

This was taken on Sunday at the London Wetland Centre.

Nikon D300s
Sigma 50-500
Tripod
F8.0
1/125s
ISO 640

Oscar

Posted by Geoffrey Baker on September 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM

A nice natural looking shot

Well done.

Geoff.

Posted by Mike Smith on September 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM

The extremely pale straw legs stand out for me and are normally wrong for a Chiffy - to be honest I'm not sure what the id is for this without a better side on view, as the straw legs are just so pale for any normal UK warbler I've seen, its also seems to have a very poor supercilium/eye stripe - was it calling?

Posted by Andy Shepherd on September 21, 2010 at 1:01 PM

I like the POV on this one Oscar, the head on view looks good to me, as for the id, I'll leave that to the pros.

Andy...

Posted by Simon Litten on September 21, 2010 at 2:39 PM

Top shot! Brilliant capture

Simon

Posted by Jeroen Stel on September 21, 2010 at 3:02 PM

Looks somewhat like a Willow Warbler but i have to agree with Mike that the tripe above the eye is not very visible and the legs are very light colored.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on September 21, 2010 at 3:05 PM

I originally thought that it was a Whitethroat, but another birder told me it was a chiffy so I just left it at that - I have to say I wasn't convinced.

Oscasr

Posted by Craig Jones on September 21, 2010 at 3:18 PM

Love the pose and the framing by the natural foliage

Great vision, enjoy what you do Oscar you have talent

Posted by Lewis Thomson on September 21, 2010 at 5:27 PM

Hi Oscar,

Nice shot, like the head on pose! I'm pretty convinced this is a Reed Warbler, do you have any with the head side on?

Cheers,

Lewis.

Posted by Guy Rogers on September 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM

Hello Oscar.

Love this and I really like the way the little bird seems to taking shelter under those leaves.

Not to sure on the ID but Chifchaff usually have black legs.