Seville, Spain birds; Falcon, etc (1 Viewer)

[Kryptos18]

My bro sent my a new batch of Seville pics today. Most of 'em I'm pretty sure of, but I'd like some confirmation.

Chiffchaff - Common, or have the Iberians begun to show up already?

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/5444/chiffy1.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4250/chiffy2.jpg

Lark - likely Crested, but just thought I'd ask. Never can be too careful!

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/153/lark1.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3752/lark2.jpg

Falcon - Peregrine, or something better?

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6733/falcon1d.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5302/falcon2.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7379/falcon3.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/467/falcon4u.jpg

Just a real quick confirmation of a Common Pochard:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5462/pochard.jpg

At first I was like ??? but then I stepped back for a sec and I'm thinking Zitting Cisticola?

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3183/zc1q.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2267/zc2m.jpg
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7672/zc3e.jpg

Thanks!

 

[dud1z]

The falcon is a Peregrine.

 

[treecreeper]

Hi,

I agree with Peregrine and Pochard, but sorry, I can't help with the others; I'm not too knowledgeable outside of the UK.

Tom

 

[James Lowther]

cisiticola is correct, chiffy probably common (iberian are late arrivals i'm fairly certain), no idea with the lark... or at least no idea beyond a probably incorrect gut instinct for thekla.
cheers,
James

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Chiffchaff is a Common collibita Iberian tend to have more of a yellow wash on the throat and be cleaner faced, but especially visible here is that the wings look too short for Iberian.

Crested Lark not easiest of angles to go on but the bill in second pic seems to suggest Crested and the breast streaking doesn't seem defined and is perhaps too dense for Thekla

brookei Peregrine on range, breadth of moustache and the darker background colour underneath contrasting more with the throat than in peregrinus

Male Pochard

Zitting Cisticola

Cheers
Jan

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

As an aside, I should relieve people by pointing out that I wont be trying to ID Iberian on yellow-washed throat and longer PP in the Uk (decent pointers though, I think there's far more chance I'd overlook an Iberian by thinking it looked like a Willow)! I think there's enough in these pics to ID collibita though, especially given the info others have provided on arrival timings

Jan

 

[Kryptos18]

Thanks for all the help guys, really appreciate it!

 

[John Cantelo]

1 - Chiffchaff for the reasons already stated; Iberians start to arrive mid-Feb
2 - Crested Lark; look at bill length in the second photo - hard to see in the first
3 - Peregrine; 'something better' is impossible, Peregrines are the tops!
4 - Can't open the photo!
5 - Zitting Cisticola