Julie & Wayne have been doing a good job keeing their birds well fed throughout the cold weather. The Lesser Whitethroat has been visiting their garden almost daily along with a host of other interesting garden birds; when I was there today Goldcrest, Sparrowhawk and Buzzard all dropped in.
The sandy brown upperparts looked strikingly pale in the bright sunshine today...
The extensively white outer-tail feathers are also characteristc of the south-eastern races, this pattern perhaps favouring ssp. halimodendri according to Shirihai et al's 'Sylvia Warblers'...
In shade the bird still looked very pale and the fine bill is shown well in this shot...
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