I also thought it was a chiffchaff at first. I have more photos but not one where I can also identify the legs and wing. Chiffchaffs are more common in the area where I took this photo. I tried to identify the bird using https://www.whatbirdisthis.org/
Wonderful! I have never ever seen one. This where the 200-800 is useful, not only does it get more pixels it tracks birds eyes at longer distances. It may help also to go into crop mode where some say the tracking is increased.
According to ObsIdentify it is a common chiffchaff (100% identification). Wikipedia states that the yellow-browed warbler is seen in western europe from September - October onwards. I suspect that this is a recent photo since the tree leaves look fresh.
Merlin also identifies it as a Chiffchaff, and that's what it looks like to me. The legs look too dark to be a Willow Warbler's or a Yellow Browed. But, these little brown jobs can be confusing.
It was taken in September 7th, not a recent photo. The identification is not always straightforward. If more people recognize it as a Chiffchaff, then I can go along with it, absolute.
Thank you Click. A close-up would have been nice but here it is interesting to see why the black woodpecker is in the area. Because of those tasty berries of course ;-)
60 meters is quite a distance when the subject is so small. The result of the upscaling is very impressive.
Sorry for the late jump into discussion: when I did see it it was a Chiffchaff and I didn't pay attention to the text. Afterwards I notice the discussion is still alive and did read the text (finally
). The Yellow-browed (Phylloscopus inornatus) is excluded (even if you take in mind the new species that came from that complex - they are very similar): the eye-brows are by far more bright/ long in these, the ear-covers should be kind of mottled, most importantly the second white-yellow strip on the wings is starting under the base of the tertials and must be perfectly visible on this photo! The first strip should be visible too as well as the bright edges of the tertials - much brighter than the species discussed below!
Thank you for the extensive analysis and explanation. This is really one of the few birds that is sometimes difficult to identify. But of course it is in the details and paying more attention to this will make identification easier in the future.Sorry for the late jump into discussion: when I did see it it was a Chiffchaff and I didn't pay attention to the text. Afterwards I notice the discussion is still alive and did read the text (finally
Why it's Chiffchaff and not Willow or Wood Warblers: simply by the excellently visible ratio tertials/primaries on the photo - primaries are short! On the Willow they have to be ~ equal to the tertials, on the Wood they are even longer! Legs are very dark (but one must keep in mind that in some cases Willow can show equally dark legs!!!).
I have Chiffchaff from the late July (Bulgaria, 2019): it's the same individual and we can see how the light could interfere with the ID (well, not if you are looking at the ALL right spots!).
"This is really one of the few birds that is sometimes difficult to identify." - I wish it was like this
: there are many that are difficult to understand (sometimes forget the real ID!!!) even in Europe!
