European Gardening: BIRDS IN THE GARDEN, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I have looked through the RSB site and found a Grasshopper Warbler that looks similar to the bird on the Rhododendron with a feather in it's mouth. That and the one on the coal bunker were in the rhodo together and I assumed they were a pair, now not so sure. The grasshopper Warbler's call could be what I heard not long ago, I was hearing it every day around 12 noon and it sounded as though it was in the conker tree, but couldn't see it. I have a feeling it was too long ago for this bird, it says from April. I came to the conclusion it must have been a woodpecker as it was a sort of rattle, but it didn't quite sound right . The G Warbler makes a cricket like trill, could this be it? It also states they move like a little mouse creeping through the foliage. The one on the bunker was creeping through the rhodo, it reminded me of a wren the way it darts around. You can't see the breast but it had possibly two broad bands of white going across it, or appeared to have, but the white was stark. There is no mention of male/female differences on the RSPB.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/g/grasshopperwarbler/inde...

If you look to the left of the bird on the rhodo there is another a short distance away, I hadn't seen it until I cropped the picture. It doesn't quite look like a sparrow, there looks to be a greenish colour on the wing but isn't a good shot.

Blackbird and Straypuss