ML391967951
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Left shellshocked by this, took Liana (Visiting Brazilian PhD student) to the park to eat the lunch we had just bought in the Business School and after admiring her first members of the Paridae (first time birding in the Old World) I noticed a passerine shoot across the corner of my vision. Expecting a Dunnock I was absolutely dumbfounded when fleeing glimpses revealed a warbler and then a head popped out which seemed good for Blyth's Reed. Neither of us had an optics with us but I did have a little point and shoot which recorded for 30 seconds before dying (never leave batteries uncharged folks) - the commentary is mine in Portuguese so apologies for the blue language. It then flew up into a tree in full view and started calling - like a BRWA - and we managed to get some horrendous phone footage. I rang Stu who came over picking up Pete Hines and then Hannah Mossman who was able to make Martin Sullivan u-turn on his way to the station and get Sue Anne Zollinger to come across. It took an hour to refind and was very lethargic feeding high up in the canopy. Had to go at 3.15 to avoid a parking ticket..... Naked eye initial flight view suggested something other than the anticipated Dunnock/Robin park options as the bird whizzed low and then flicked up in the vegetation quite clumsily. As neither of us had bins we advanced over to the bush where it was obvious that it was a warbler from tiny glimpses, I had my camera in my pocket and was able to get my best views of the bird on the LCD screen where the combination of cold brown plumage, strong supercilium, whitish underparts, long slender bill and tail-cocking posture all seemed to scream BRWA. The camera failed after 30 seconds and I was unable to review the images but further field views confirmed these features and crucially the bird was very vocal, uttering a Lesser Whitethroat like 'tek' call (see sound recording). No decent images of the spread wings to confirm emarginations but videograbs show that pp was short at least.
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