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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: Bramblecot on October 01, 2014, 03:38:17 pm

Title: Baby bird
Post by: Bramblecot on October 01, 2014, 03:38:17 pm
This little baby bird was stuck behind the glass on our balcony.  Mum/Dad kept calling and trying to encourage him out but he would not budge :huff: .  So OH put him on the handrail and 10 minutes later he flew away :relief: .  Any ideas what he is please?  Thinking maybe a chiffchaff or willow warbler :-\
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Post by: Bramblecot on October 01, 2014, 05:55:43 pm
Just realised that I should have put this in wildlife - it is hardly a plant! :-[
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Post by: Carse Goodlifers on October 01, 2014, 05:59:52 pm
Not sure what it is but a super picture though.
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Post by: PipSqueak on October 01, 2014, 06:40:43 pm
Chiffchaff?
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Post by: devonlady on October 01, 2014, 09:22:36 pm
Baby chaffinch? Dear little soul.
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Post by: Fleecewife on October 01, 2014, 11:10:11 pm
What's the scale?  What are the measurements of the rail it's sitting on?  Definitely not a chaffinch - wrong colour and has a stripe over its eye.
Some possibilities : yellow wagtail juvenile (prob not); yellow browed warbler; wood warbler; chiffchaff; willow warbler - my favourite option as has a darker stripe through its eye just below the yellow stripe; almost any of the LBJs.  Size helps, and call, although most babies just say 'cheep'  :o  :D.   Where you live also makes a difference.  Whatever it is, I've not noticed one round here  :(
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Post by: Llandovery Lass on October 04, 2014, 05:08:40 pm
Robin perhaps
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Post by: Bramblecot on October 04, 2014, 05:15:57 pm
 The rail is approx. 1 1/2"/4cm high. 

I think with the black legs, eye stripe and brown cheeks he was probably a chiffchaff.  He really was weeny :-* .
We are on the Dorset coast.  I hope he makes it wherever he was going :fc:
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Post by: sokel on October 05, 2014, 09:46:12 pm
Looks like a baby Chiff Chaff  to me