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sue-o
March 27th, 2008, 10:32 PM
An after a bath shot.
john robinson
March 27th, 2008, 11:24 PM
Maybe a Blackcap (female) but its a wild ,wild guess.
JohnR
Nathan Kipling
March 27th, 2008, 11:44 PM
I think it is, a female blackcap, if you look closely it's cap's the distinctive chocolate tone.

:smile:
sue-o
March 28th, 2008, 10:00 AM
Female Blackcap is a logical guess, but it is not a Blackcap.
chris butterworth
March 28th, 2008, 10:05 AM
Hmm. As your current location is Italy could it be a male Italian Sparrow? Stuck at work at the moment so no ID literature!
Colin Key
March 28th, 2008, 10:14 AM
I'm with Chris, italiae race of Spanish Sparrow, probably a young male.

Colin
sue-o
March 28th, 2008, 10:19 AM
Hmm. As your current location is Italy could it be a male Italian Sparrow? Stuck at work at the moment so no ID literature!

Chris,
Do not go by my current location. I have photos from many places and that is why I call this mystery game, What in the World?;)
I admit this one is a particularly difficult one. It's wet and I've cropped it (hint). You all are so good that I have to find very difficult photos. I realized that after a few postings and seeing someone id off the wake made by a diving bird.:wink:
Sue
Joe stockwell
March 28th, 2008, 11:53 AM
i am going to have a punt at isabelline or woodchat shrike
Josh Jones
March 28th, 2008, 05:22 PM
i am going to have a punt at isabelline or woodchat shrike

Surely not? I don't see much to suggest a shrike, especially Woodchat.

Female Blackcap probably would have been my guess but it's difficult from this image.
sue-o
March 28th, 2008, 06:37 PM
Not a shrike.
Joe stockwell
March 28th, 2008, 07:31 PM
ok then, a tit?
sue-o
March 28th, 2008, 09:29 PM
ok then, a tit?

:eek: Didn't foresee this scenario. I'll have to say yes, and no. :laugh::laugh:

If you had named a specific tit I could have said no, but because the bird has the word Tit in it's name, I think a simple no might be misleading. It's not a Paridae, so it's really not a tit--it's a Wrentit. Many people confuse Bushtits and Wrentits, the Wrentit does look like a tit. The head seems a bit brown for a Southern Cal bird, but the coloring was hard to see because he had just come up from a bath. I think this was a pretty difficult mystery--well done.
Sue
sue-o
March 28th, 2008, 09:53 PM
Today is not my day for computering. I had to shrink the photo because it was too big to download by a few ks. now it looks a bit distorted, but I think it shows well enough for our purposes. Speaking of photos, you've posted a few very nice ones, Joe.
snowfinch
April 15th, 2008, 12:47 AM
I'm going for Wrentit.
sue-o
April 15th, 2008, 01:19 PM
I'm going for Wrentit.

Hi Snowfinch,
Welcome to SB Forum. Yes, it's a wrentit. The photo was taken in Huntington Central Park, Huntington Beach, CA.
markspraggett
January 1st, 2009, 12:04 AM
not a shrike.
is it a little bunting
sue-o
January 2nd, 2009, 05:38 PM
is it a little bunting

Hi Mark,
Welcome to SurfBirds. The bird is a Wrentit. It is found in the Pacific Western States of the US. I think it is in a class of it's own, but maybe someone more knowledgeable will come up and correct me and give us both an education.
Sue
David Roche
January 20th, 2009, 05:00 PM
Looks like im too late for this one.. would have guessed at Bushtit