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Seeking ID for birds from park in northern Madrid, Spain (pictures) (1 Viewer)

hmuryj

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Hi!

I recently started paying attention to birds around and was trying to identify some that i found. Below are birds that i couldn't or could only partially identify. All spotted in or near one very small park in northern Madrid. (Parque Villarosa). All in mid-spring to mid-summer.

1) Looking at slightly red eyes, this might be Sardinian Warbler? It was sitting in a dark tree, was small and fast, sometimes it was hanging upside down on branches.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/kMcuQnnrSCcqoKyr7

2) At first, i thought it was the same as above, but this one doesn't seem to have red eyes and has different tail - shorter, with different coloring. I saw this one more frequently, it is usually hanging on thin branches of pine and other trees. I thought it might be Marsh Tit, but the beak size looks different in the pictures and the color on the chest is off.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/x8BemK9hdieuU7dY9

3) This completely grey-colored one I saw only once, it was sitting in the grass, then flew to the tree and away. Was the size of blackbird, maybe. I thought it might be a Starling baby.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/pGYCN8qLSQQ4K1mv5

4) While googling, the only more or less fitting match i found is Linnet. I only saw it once. It had red chest and a bit of a red head. It was a bit bigger than a common sparrow and was looking for something in the grass near sparrows, a finch and a serin.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/WTU6bmUwuXfYCfSv9

5) This one looks like a sparrow, but with less patterns and markings. Sparrow-sized, was sitting high up on a tree.
Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/wyPacfVaSv1dYPqY9

Thank you for your time!
 
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