News of this bird came out yesterday so I was itching to go and see it.It didn't take long before the bird was located on arrival in full song.The Iberian chiffchaff eventually showed well after half an hour and was clearly doing a circuit around the area.Plenty of birders on site had managed to get good sonogram recordings of the bird and the I'D looked spot on.
The Iberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus ibericus) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Mediterranean.This was my second Iberian chiffchaff for Cheshire and Wirral the last one being found by my good friend Phil Woollen at Dibbinsdale LNR back in early May 2004.
