Chiffchaff

Being out in the country and surrounded by fruit plantations we get lots of birds here, and our neighbours have loads of weeds growing as they rarely visit in winter so their garden is always full of birds, flocks of Serins and Goldfinches, perhaps 20-50 or more visit every day along with Stonechats, Sardinian Warblers, Blackcaps, various other finches. We counted 200+sparrows in our pine trees once, they often fly from one group of trees to another individually, making it easy to count. Sometimes they can make a terrible noise though. They nest all over the place, many under the roof of a porch we built outside an entrance door alondside Spotless Starling, of which we also get lots, supplemented by European Starlings in winter.

We have a lot of photos and videos of chiffchaffs, such as this one:

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/828...

Yes, these are the species we usually see in our community garden:
spotless starling, blackbird,robin, turtle dove, sardinian warble, white wagtail, common chiffchaff, sparrow. We also see bee eaters and monk parakeets flying sometimes. But the most exciting moment was when we saw a Sparrowhawk:

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/629...

I find Black Redstarts quite time, like the Robins, Every winter they visit us and a pair have slept in the garage for several years. This year they are sleeping in the space under our patio, on top of some shelves.
I see you live in the town, do you get any other avian visitors from the surrounding countryside?

There are some sparrows and Chiffchaffs and black redstarts that are coming every day to our terrace. Chiffchaffs eat little insects from our plants, and sparrows and redstarts come because we give them little bread crumbs.

OH! just now there is a robin!! It is so cute, but I have not my camera ready :(

This little guy is adorable :) What a lovely capture, Noe and Pili! So sweet!

They are about the only ones like that here at this time of year but there are two species, Siberian is the other, but again I don't know the differences.

Thanks for the information, Malcolm. These guys are very hard to identify for us (within the genus Phylloscopus)

I have absolutely no idea how to separate male from female from a picture, they have so many plumage variations, basically the younger they are the more yellow they are but the yellow tips soon get worn down and if they survive into a second winter they are a dull grey.

Thanks Sachin :)

Nice little one,