Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Chiffchaff trouble

Tell me why this bird isn't a Common Chiffchaff.

It was photographed at Fishers Green, Lee Valley, England last Sunday afternoon.

Any thoughts?

Chiffchaff (Russell Spencer)
Chiffchaff - back end (Russell Spencer)

2 comments:

  1. Chiffchaff photographs are notoriously tricky to interpret. Sometimes just a few additional lines of a traditional description can be useful, however, that seems to be going out of the window these days.

    It looks to have olive tones and to be a collybita, but what did it look like in the field?

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  2. obviously not too bothered then?

    why post in the first place?

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