Some less-than-great leaf warbler views from NE India (1 Viewer)

[Tiraya]

Can we do anything with these, or are they a lost cause?

 

[andyb39]

I think the first two images show the same bird, and with double wingbars but plain wing otherwise and bold head markings, including a crown stripe, I'd say it's a Blyth's Leaf Warbler.

The bird in the third photo looks like a different individual. It has a mottled cheek, a hint of dark centres to the greater coverts and also of a dark block at the base of the flight feathers. I would expect to see pale edges to the tertials, but they're not in evidence in this image, perhaps because it's moulted them on the side we can see? It could be Yellow-browed or perhaps the form mandellii of Hume's Leaf Warbler.

 

[Tiraya]

Blyth's would make sense as that's the default one I was identifying here (by song mostly), and the markings you indicate. This was a different elevation though, so I wondered if it was anything else (and one person said western crowned warbler, which despite my lack of Phyllo knowledge I can say quite certainly it's not, so I was just hoping for other thoughts.

Seems the second individual (third photo) is going to be a life bird for me if it isn't Blyth's, but we'll see if anything can be made of it.