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9 May
12:54pm, 9 May 2024
5,205 posts
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J2R
I was just listening to (and in fact watching) a garden warbler now, singing in a hawthorn bush. What a fantastic song it is! jacdaw, I envy you a garden which has garden warblers in it. Name notwithstanding, they're really not a garden bird.
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10 May
1:03pm, 10 May 2024
4,687 posts
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Curly45
Swans on the canal have 6 eggs this year š only 4 last year (3 to adulthood).
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10 May
1:09pm, 10 May 2024
33,523 posts
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HellsBells
Iāve never seen a garden warbler. I heard one at Fowlmere last weekend, but couldnāt locate it
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10 May
2:29pm, 10 May 2024
5,209 posts
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J2R
Garden warbler and blackcap singing near each other today on a lovely riverside run - very interesting to compare. (HellsBells, as with Cetti's, you will hear garden warblers a lot more than you will ever see them, as they are the ultimate little brown skulking jobs). In fact today was a good warbler run - in a 2 mile stretch along the river heard reed warbler, sedge warbler, chiffchaff, Cetti's, garden warbler and blackcap, and was surprised not to hear whitethroat as they're normally there. Add grasshopper warbler and willow warbler which I've heard quite often in this little patch and it really is warbler world.
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10 May
3:01pm, 10 May 2024
65,787 posts
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Derby Tup
I think the year of lockdown we had blackcap everywhere here and I heard what sounded like but not entirely like a blackcap and put it down at garden warbler. It was in a great environment- masses of brambles and thicket
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10 May
3:13pm, 10 May 2024
5,211 posts
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J2R
They're very alike but I'm more confident now in spotting the difference. Both fabulous songs.
Yesterday evening we had swifts screeching overhead, a sound which always lifts my spirits even though it's not really a beautiful sound as such. But so evocative!
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10 May
8:11pm, 10 May 2024
21,231 posts
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flanker
Stopped the van out in the countryside to eat my lunch today and heard my first cuckoo of the year. It was only a small copse so decided to go hunting. I'm sure it was taunting me as the call kept moving ahead of me but didn't see it at all.
Loads of song though, with some I wasn't sure about, so turned on Merlin and in a couple of minutes it had robin, blackbird, wren, chiffchaff, blackcap, garden warbler, willow warbler (loads of them), jackdaw, pheasant. There were lots of things moving around in the scrub but without bins couldn't make many of them out.
Might need to go back.
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11 May
8:11am, 11 May 2024
8,434 posts
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um
6 - 8 cuckoos on our run in the NF yesterday.
( Or just a pair following us round? )
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11 May
9:55am, 11 May 2024
85,939 posts
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Diogenes
Highlight of todayās walk was one or more vociferous Firecrests
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11 May
10:16am, 11 May 2024
6,880 posts
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steve45
Three singing Whitethroats in close proximity to eachother during my outing this morning.
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