A SPINNING COIN

 My good friend Stephen Carter invited me along to a local wood to see if we could locate any Wood Warbler territories. The Wood Warbler is a spring/summer migrant  from tropical Africa and is pretty scarce outside it's preferred habitat of closed woodland with  sparse undergrowth. 

We walked about a 100 meters into the wood before Steve detected the off nest call of the male it was a long way from where we were stood and soon disappeared back into the canopy. We went a bit further in to the wood and this time we saw another male off calling this one was a lot closer and even gave snatches of the birds song which sounds like a spinning coin on a table top. I managed a couple of photo's as the bird moved around the tree branches above us.

wood warbler

 The bird must have had a nest close by and although we stood quiet and watched the male for a while we couldn't quite locate it so we left the bird in peace as not to disturb it to much.

wood warbler giving us it's spinning coin song

It was the first time I'd managed to photograph Wood Warbler so I was well pleased. Steve was a little disappointed that he couldn't locate the nest for his records but there's always next time. Well that's it for this one so as always thanks for dropping by and I'll catch you soon.