Overview

Family - Warblers and allies (Sylviidae)

The whitethroat is a medium-sized warbler, about the size of a great tit. It has quite a long tail which it flicks and cocks as it darts rapidly in and out of cover. The male has a grey head, a white throat and a brown back, and is buff underneath. It is a summer visitor and passage migrant, with birds breeding widely, although it avoids urban and mountainous areas. It winters in Africa, south of the Sahara.

Comment

This whitethroat was photographed at RSPB Ham Wall on 18/4/2010.  In the last two weeks they seem to have arrived en masse and this character was happy to be approached to less than the minimum focus distance of my lens.