An evening walk around Castor Hanglands on Friday, 17 April revealed the contrasting sights and sounds of this time of year. Whilst nightingale and lesser whitethroat sang on the heath, a flock of fieldfare flew, chattering loudly, overhead.
Nightingale and lesser whitethroat will have just arrived from their wintering grounds in Africa. Fieldfare will be just about to leave England after the winter, heading north and east to their breeding grounds in Scandanavia.
The lesser whitethroat is one of my favourite birds - rarely seen its dry, rattling call is so very distinctive and is a real sound of the spring! Listen out for it!
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