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Chiffcaff (was - ID please (again!))

  • 26-09-2010 12:45pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭


    This little bird arrives in my garden from time to time, he is very small and slender compared to say a sparrow. Pointy little bill and a lovely soft buff yellowy colour. I am thinking warbler but cant identify it from my bird book.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭1squidge


    Looks like a chiffchaff to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    1squide correct it's a chiffchaff.
    Darkish legs rule out willow warbler and rarer wood warbler. Also the primary projections are shortish.
    Nice photo:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Ah thanks very much, its good to know what you are looking at!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭Bsal


    I have a Chiffchaff visit my garden often, do they migrate for the winter or do they stay in Ireland?


  • Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Whippersnapper


    Great photo!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Bsal wrote: »
    I have a Chiffchaff visit my garden often, do they migrate for the winter or do they stay in Ireland?

    They generally arrive in late March and depart in August and September. An odd one may be present all year round.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭stevensi


    As Srameen pointed out most do depart our shores around now but some do stick about all year. I actually had two of them in my place on Christmas Eve last year...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭Bsal


    I hope my ones stay but I fear they have left, haven't seen them in a few days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Increasingly they are wintering in the south of the country...


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