ID please!

[SuperAP]

I'm useless with small birds... what's this fella?

 

[TinaC]

Ahh, yes...I'm familiar with these, I call them LBJ's (Little Brown Jobs)

 

[SuperAP]

I'm glad you explained the acronym Tina

 

[scottthehat]

a whitethroat i think.

 

[SuperAP]

That's what I thought, but then I figured this one was a whitethroat and the other one might be something different...

 

[scottthehat]

the 2nd i think is a female.

 

[toonamp]

The beak is a bit long for a whitethroat, is it maybe a warbler ?

 

[CT]

Reed Warbler.

 

[Martyn...]

The image in post #1 is a Whitethroat.

Classic Whitethroat pose, right at the top of a stem singing it's gonads off

 

[mex]

Its deffinately a whitethroat.

The beak is a bit long for a whitethroat, is it maybe a warbler ?

whitethroats are a member of the 'sylvia' family of warblers.

 

[Kingfisher]

No.1 is a male whitethroat and the second one is a juvenile and both are indeed warblers. One of my favourite birds that I've spent a lot of time watching this year.

 

[scottthehat]

Reed Warbler.

reeds have darker legs.