Winter Whitethroat?

Pete Lambert wrote yesterday:
  
On my way to Tottenham Marshes this morning at 9am I had a brief view of what looked like a (Common) Whitethroat.  It was just south of Banbury Reservoir along the footpath that runs south from there by the houses, coming out on Blackhorse Lane E17 (just north of Lockwood Way).  It appeared on a patch of brambles just opposite 33 Waterhall Close.  As it came up about 10m in front of me, I could see it had an obvious white throat.  When I got my bins on it there was a clearly red-brown area on the upperparts like a Whitethroat.  No obvious dark mask (like Lesser Whitethroat).  Didn’t have time to check bare parts before the bird moved down into the brambles towards the fence for Walthamstow Res.  Although I stood still for a while and then walked up and down here I couldn’t relocate the bird.

I looked again in the area with Terry at about 1120am but no joy.  No calls heard.

There are extensive bramble patches just north of this,inside the Reservoir, just east of the channel going to Banbury Res where it could be lurking.  This is also close to where the Dusky Warbler was the other year.

Terry on his way back west saw Bullfinch and Buzzard at East Marsh.

 

DMC