Tuesday 30 June 2020

Blyth's Reed Warbler sings its heart out at Longlands Lake ... Mediterranean Gulls gather up the coast ...

The Blyth's Reed Warbler in West Cumbria showed remarkably well today for its fourth day ... singing from a patch of scrub and demonstrating its remarkably varied repertoire ...




... showing first of all the dark legs and supercilium that extends just beyond the eye ... the greyish brown tones ...



... then the short primary projection when viewed from behind ...


... a classic bird whose features showed so well thanks to its extrovert behaviour ...

... the sonograms of the song show the dramatic and characteristic phrases with those typical ascending and descending scales ... the characteristic clicks in between ...






Meanwhile in the Workington area Mediterranean Gulls were there on the beach in numbers unusual for so early in the 'autumn' ...

... flighty and unapproachable there were four first summer birds, seven second summer birds and five adults in this the largest group of sixteen ...



... how many will there be in late August when the the maximum numbers usually occur ...











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