Humes Warbler 001111

In the deep shade of its chosen sallow bushes the bird often had a particularly ghostly pallor about it, appearing on many views to lack any green/yellow tones; the photos below were taken on 5th December:

...and click here to listen to a short recording of it calling (recorded on 23rd November); for comparison, click here to listen to a recording of Yellow-browed Warbler (Easton, Portland, 1st November 2011). Sonograms of the first few seconds of these recording show the difference in call structure, with Hume's being that little bit lower pitched, less 'clean' and lacking a sharp rise in pitch on the second syllable.

...and on 21st December we weren't too far away when Ian Dodd trapped and ringed the bird:

Ian kindly provided the following biometrics: wing length 54 mm, tail length 38 mm,
2nd primary equalled 9th/secondaries, weight 6.1g