6 thoughts on “Cosmeston

  1. lolmid01's avatar lolmid01

    Hi John – it was along the boardwalk between the visitors centre and the medieval village – the bushes between there and the reedbed tend to be quite productive for warblers – also lesser and common whitethroat in last few days.

  2. lolmid01's avatar lolmid01

    The bird flew into a bush in front of us – about 15 yards away, about 10ft from ground. I expected it to be a female blackcap from the flight/jizz etc. It took a few seconds to get a clear view of head and accertain that it lacked the brown cap. It was generally grey/brown with no distinct super, indeed quite plain and immediately recognisable as s. borin. It hung around for maybe 2 or 3 mintes during which time Andy got onto the bird and got a few shots. The bird made no sound, and didn’t move about the bush, just adjusting stance a bit. At no time did it appear chiff-chaff like and in the field showed nothing that resembled chiff.

  3. lolmid01's avatar lolmid01

    When I first saw the photograph I was also struck by the chiff-chaff resemblance, and was most surprised. However I concluded that the hint of a super was far too indistinct, the pale fringed alula was not dark enough, the complete eye ring was wrong, and that the primaries might be much darker on tristis. I will however confess that I have little experience of Siberian chiffs in spring and have not seen a garden warbler for 6 years 🙂

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