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Yes..

I blame sleep deprevation.

You were actually awake?

Bring on a Punda BBW anyday.. I will get more sleep in there than what I am getting now!!

Thanks, WTM and DD. I knew that I posted my only photo with the glimpse of the tail for a reason

Here's another that has me puzzled The white throat and yellow rump would seem to indicate a whitethroated canary





but what about the streaked chest, which is more like a female yellow canary ... Which has me wondering, which? Or neither? Seen at WCNP on 24 May 2012.

Streaking can often be observed on all canaries that do not normally show streaking... It may be due to the bird being juvenile, it may be due to moulting or a cycle in the breeding season. So, don't let streaking per se put you off a perfectly good ID!

Here is a good example of a streaked WTC.

Thanks, JvR, WTC it is!

Um - at a bit of a loss here. Red-capped Lark? Seen Kruger south of Satara June2012.

It looks a bit like a cisticola to me, but the pic is a bit low on information. If the original pic is of a higher resolution, PM a link to me and I'll have a proppaganda...

I still stand with my previous comment

DD is quite correct. The only things you can say for sure are:
1. It is a Cisticola, not a Lark
2. It is likely to be a Rattling Cisticola but is impossible, from the picture, to say with certainty.

Many thanks DD , JvR and deefstes for your input. Unknown Cisticola for now.

Believe me, I have plenty of Unknown cisticola's in my photo folders

Oh good .. . . I mean, oh dear the poor things

I too have a growing collection of 'unknown cisticolas' — to which these may be added. I try and try to distinguish between greybacked and Levaillant's cisticolas and invariably get them wrong, so .... Are these (which may or my not be the same bird) Levaillant's? See along Darling Hills Road on 31 May 2012.