Little bird in the reeds

I hope you all like this pic because I stood in the pouring rain to take it! I'm not sure what type of warbler this is so please enlighten me if you know. I think it could be a reed warbler but not totally sure as the warblers look very similar. There were several birds all flitting about in the reed bed and it was so hard to get any pics but I managed 3 fairly decent ones and this is probably the best. I just cropped it a little. These birds are just so fast and they don't sit still for a minute! Taken at Priory Country Park this afternoon. Why is it fine in the morning and starts raining as I leave work? Not conducive to photography at all

[Beryl Lloyd]

What a beautiful little bird & well captured. I love the the wheaten colour of the reeds & how the little warbler effortlessly to a reed

[Judith Johnson]

Oh I love it - well worth getting wet for! I bought a book of garden birds recently and you're right they all look very similar. However, it's probably a reed warbler due to his habitat.

[Gerry]

very nice composition

[Pam Knowler]

Beautiful bird and composition - worth getting wet for!!

[Padlock]

well worth getting wet for.

[Mike]

Clearly it's a 'wet-warbler'!

[carol white]

A lovely capture!!

[Judith Greenwood]

OOh I do like it - I'm identifying it as a 'brown bird'!

[Hazel]

Well done for standing in the rain to get this lovely shot. (it's rained here ALL day.)

[Jennifer C]

ohh a reed warbler, just like the warblers here in aus, wonderful!

[❀ Lynn]

Very nice shot.

[Christine]

Good shot

[Martin]

Great shot, think it could be a reed warbler a lot of these warbler look almost the same but different if that make sense. Hard birds to get pictures of in the reeds.

[Ann Jones]

Beautiful composition and detail!

[Dandolo]

Great shot and well spotted. I always look on the rspb website first. Especially if I've heard it because their sound clips help so much.

[Frank Hymus]

Yes, a great shot. Worth getting wet as long as your camera and lens came through it OK.

[Ann]

Fabulous composition and capture. When I first saw it I thought it was a wren, and then I realized where you were. : ). Fav. Love the texture of the reeds.

[Diana Moss]

Well worth getting wet for all your bird pictures are beautiful Rosie

[Jo]

Rosie it's a wonderful shot and I admire you for persevering through the rain to get it and isn't it amazing how birds seem to perfectly complement their background. It sounds like Priory Country Park is a great place for bird spotting, I don't get quite the variety in my back garden!

[Shirley Banford]

Excellent capture.

[Anatoly]

Nice shot of a Reed Warbler! They are at my place too and look just like yours. They come from Africa together with cuckoos. The latter put their eggs into the wabler's nests and then poor wablers feed the cuckoo's chicken which grows two or three times bigger than the wablers themselves.