What is this please..?

Question

Had my 1st ever visit to Brandon Marsh Nature reserve today to celebrate my last day off for Easter. 
 Took lots of Pictures, but I'm really bad at these little reedy jobs.. can anybody ID it for me..? 
 
 
 And if its any help.. heres a picture of its *rse as it flew away.. 
 
 
 Any cleverer people than me out there..?

Buzzard · Answer

seymouraves said: The eyering looks bold enough for chiff, though I admit the supercilium looks long but not as bright as I'd expect from Willow. 
 
 Hi, never easy trying to seperate the species from a photo! 
 Again call and song is the easiest way in the field to seperate them, in the hand; ringers look at the primaries as well as a number of other criteria. The 6th primary feather is emarginated on a Chiffchaff, were as the 6th primary on a Willow Warbler is not. 
 The bird in the photo appears to have the characteristics of a Chiffchaff! 
 Brown olive upperparts; breast with yellow and rufous tinge; dark legs; eye-ring broken, lower eye lid white; lores rather dark; bill is also fine and dark. 
 Also the supercilium as mentioned by Seymouraves is long: again this is a characteristic of a 2nd year Chiffchaff. 
 I would be relatively confident to say it was a 2nd year Chiffchaff. 
 Hope this helps! 
 Regards Buzzard

seymouraves · Answer

Hi, 
 the 3rd photo gives us a good angle on the primary projection - adds to the chiffchaff look:) 
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