A need help!!!

[Linda257]

So ...this wee birdie is doing my head in as it was silent and I immediately thought it was bigger than a whitethroat and didn't act like the whitethroat I have been seeing up the Haugh all the time.
So your opinions will very much help, and stop me tearing my hair out...hopefully.....some pics suggest whitethroat some dont
Maybe it's a teenager
Maybe am just losing the plot

[Bob S]

So ...this wee birdie is doing my head in as it was silent and I immediately thought it was bigger than a whitethroat and didn't act like the whitethroat I have been seeing up the Haugh all the time.
So your opinions will very much help, and stop me tearing my hair out...hopefully.....some pics suggest whitethroat some dont
Maybe it's a teenager
Maybe am just losing the plot

I would say a female whitethroat.

[Linda257]

Thanks Bob...think ma brain just wasn't engaged today

[Bob S]

Thanks Bob...think ma brain just wasn't engaged today

The males are little easier to identify lol.

[Linda257]

Yeah ano but I have photos of male , female and the wains as I have been watching them all summer and this one just stumped me today for some reason

[Bob S]

Yeah ano but I have photos of male , female and the wains as I have been watching them all summer and this one just stumped me today for some reason

A month or two and they will back on the plains of Africa I guess.

[PimperneBloke]

Everyone knows you're beyond it Linda

Google Lens says Whitethroat..... or Nightingale for the 2nd pic

[Linda257]

Everyone knows you're beyond it Linda

Google Lens says Whitethroat..... or Nightingale for the 2nd pic

Please never give up hope on me

Shove yer Google lens where it belongs ....please

[SnappyMac]

I also think a whitethroat, info from the bird spot site:

Females are similar to males except they are duller and browner particularly on the crown and cheeks, and they do not have the pink wash on the breast.

Juvenile whitethroats have brown upperparts, white chin and throat, and dull buff underparts. Their eyes are dull olive coloured.

Perhaps a juvenile female I think they need a label...

[Linda257]

I also think a whitethroat, info from the bird spot site:

Females are similar to males except they are duller and browner particularly on the crown and cheeks, and they do not have the pink wash on the breast.

Juvenile whitethroats have brown upperparts, white chin and throat, and dull buff underparts. Their eyes are dull olive coloured.

Perhaps a juvenile female I think they need a label...

But but but...a guess today's was on a diet as it looked quite slender compared to the usual wee chunks

Thanks SM