Back in early May my good friend Stephen Carter and myself went to one of our local woods. We knew that there would be a good chance that the Wood Warblers would have arrived back on their summer territories after spending the winter in Tropical Africa.
On my way over to meet him I came over some moorland where there were good numbers of Skylarks. I was fortunate enough that a Skylark landed pretty close and started singing not taking any notice of me at all.
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| singing skylark |
On meeting Steve on the entrance to the woods we noticed A pair of Grey Wagtails catching insects. After observing the birds for a couple of minutes Steve found their nest in a wall with four healthy chicks.
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| male grey wagtail with a beak full of insects |
We moved on into the wood where Steve soon picked up the call of the Wood Warbler. We found there were three different territories and we soon picked up the birds as they were flitting about in the canopy.
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| wood warbler |
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| wood warbler in the canopy |
They're a very pretty little warbler a lot greener than their cousins that also arrive here in the Spring from Africa the Chiff Chaff and Willow Warbler. Their call is very distinctive and is said to sound like a spinning coin finished off with a few piping notes.
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| another wood warbler |
We watched them for a little while before heading back to leave them in peace, glad in the knowledge that they had made it back to hopefully breed successfully for another season.
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