This interesting Chiffchaff was jumping around a bush by my car at the end of Meadow Lane, Bedford today. Its call instantly drew my attention to it - as it sounded a bit plain and monosyllabic. I got a pretty good view of it and it was fairly brown with the only green on the plumage being on the wings and on its tail sides. It had a scruffy cheek with a few feathers out of place but it did have a really nice flaring supercillium. The underparts were dull cream getting slightly brighter towards the centre. The upperparts were grey-brown - all in all it looks pretty good for tristis. Have a listen to the call (below) - mostly pretty even, but one or two calls were pushing towards the 'seoo' end of things. I wonder if its in the variation of tristis? More research needed but it does look good. Chiffchaff at Meadow Lane 8th Jan 2012 by Steve Blain
Lives in Bedfordshire, loves digiscoping, local patching and county birding. Also enjoyes the odd trip to far away lands to seek out mystical forest dwellers.
Well, I reckon its just nice image of birds. Really nice images of birds. In fact, it doesn't really have to be birds if you look down my blog. I started at birds, but it's widened to mammals too. So, really nice images of birds AND mammals then. There, sorted.
