Thanks ‘Miss F.K.” 🐈really kind of you to comment. I don’t expect to hear one again until next April but they’re quietly making their way down the hedgerows and working their way south at the moment!
Thank you Dr H. I made up my mind to try to develop a resource of bird calls when the manager of RSPB Newport helped me to identify this particular call. it wasn't long after that that I spotted this one and did the video. So glad to hear it helped and I appreciate you taking the time to let me know.
Thanks ‘Miss F.K.” , RU-vid says I haven't replied to your comment although I did post one. I assumed you could remove the name and you'd still see it but now I realise the name is important to direct it to you.Sorry!! This was my reply Thanks ‘Miss F.K.” 🐈really kind of you to comment. I don’t expect to hear one again until next April but they’re quietly making their way down the hedgerows and working their way south at the moment!
Heard this today near the greensand ridge on the Kent/Surrey border and thought it was this. Annoyingly, I couldn't actually see it amongst the foliage.
That is often the case I’m afraid Paul! The number of times I’ve stared at s tree trying to spot the hidden warbler. The most difficult to pin down is Cetti’s Warbler and the Garden Warbler seems to time its return from Africa to coincide with the growth of fresh foliage to hide in. It’s 70% luck and 30% fieldcraft actually getting to see them!
Thank YOU Helen. This call was originally identified for me by an experienced birder a few years ago and I found it so helpful it encouraged me to start my ‘British Birds and their calls’ series. Great to know it’s still proving useful.
He is quite a ninja that one. Often hear him very near, must be sitting on a rowan tree nearby. I take my binoculars and spend 5 minutes looking for him, but can only hear him. But but but! Today was actually my lucky day. He finally sat in well lit spot not hiding behind leaves this time. I guess your video brought me luck :D
Isn’t it always the way! I’m trying to recapture stuff in a higher resolution now that I’ve got a camera capable of it and I’ve stood in front of willow trees with Willow Warblers singing away but can I see them? ( rhetorical question) Even if you spot them you’ve got the problem of trying to focus if there’s a branch in the way. Still I enjoy a challenge! 😊
+Jules A Cheers Jules! Thanks for taking the time to comment. Heard my first one of the year this afternoon. Unfortunately the guy I was chatting to was deaf to high pitched sounds and didn't realise just how close we were, consequently he flushed it by moving towards it before I could get a photo!
+john l uk You're welcome. I heard my first ever singing the other day when someone pointed it out to me so I was listening to your excellent recording to try to encourage it to stick in my brain!
Is such great stuff JL! Can I give you a couple of links to some unknown bird song I recorded at the Stodmarsh NNR reed beds way back in the year as I feel that you may know just what it is I could hear ... but not see! More unknown birdsong SNNR 17 May 2014 Unknown birdsong at SNNR 17 May 2014
Wendy for some reason this video ended up quarantined in the 'spam' filter - one of the other videos in there said that's because theirs had a link to another video which apparently triggers it. Anyway the first one is a Reed Warbler. The second one sorry but I'm not sure, sounds a bit Lark like - possibly a species that you get down there that we don't.
Thanks Mike, only just seen your comment. The Lesser Whitethroat is such a lovely little bird. This year I saw them shortly after arrival, when the males were advertising their presence, but they generally stayed under cover after that.
That's great to hear Mike. Before I made the video I had no idea what they sounded like but the manager of RSPB Newport at the time, Matthew Meehan was good enough to identify the call for me. I waited patiently for a sighting and funnily enough one started showing really well at the time we had a Savi's Warbler on site so most people were rushing past to see that. Being local I was able to get there really early and had already had plenty of views and video of the Savi's but seeing this little beauty was a real treat!
