Currently viewing

Wildlife Sounds 2017

DawnChorus-Stodmarsh- 300417-1

A medley in the woodland at Stodmarsh Nature reserve in Kent.

SedgeWarbler-300417-1

Sedge Warbler bursting with song at Stodmarsh

ReedWarbler-300417

Reed Warbler skulking in the bottom of the reeds but still singing away.

Nightingale-280417-1

Hiding away in the bushes at Cliffe Pools in Kent.

Nightingale-280417-2

Nightingale - Liquid gold

Blackcap-280417-1

Blackcap the poor man's Nightingale

Chaffinch-230417

Chaffinch

Stonechat-200417

A very short snatch of Stonechat in song flight.

Blackcap&Chiffchaff-080417

A burst of Blackcap followed by a more distant Chiffchaff and then the Blackcap takes over again.

MistleThrush&Wren-050417

Mistle Thrush high up at Strumpshaw Fen to a Wren accompaniment

Woodlark-040417

Woodlark high overhead in the bright blue.
And the ever present planes

DawnChorus-Stodmarsh-300417-2

A medley from the Reed Bed at Stodmarsh in Kent.

DawnChorus-Stodmarsh-300417-3

Twixt reedbed and bushes

Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Wood Pigeon, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Gulls, Pheasant, Cetti's Warbler

SedgeWarbler-300417-2

Sedge Warbler deep in the bushes at Stodmarsh

Blackcap-300417

Blackcap - just superb

Nightingale-280417-3

Just can't get enough of the golden song of Nightingales

Nightingale-280417-4

Come and live in the back garden please

WillowWarbler-200417-1

Came late this year but that descending crescendo never disappoints

WillowWarbler-200417-2

Sublime escalator

Blackcap-080417

A short burst of blackcap


Blackcap-050417

Blackcap singing at Strumpshaw Fen

Chiffchaff-040417

Chiffchaff: the first sign of Spring
at Kelling Heath
The planes are all year round.



March

WoodLark-130317

Woodlark in the open on the freshly turned earth
at Kelling Heath


ChiffChaff-1303171

A first Chiffchaff of the year at
Kelling Heath

DownByTheRiverside-010317

Down by the River Little Ouse at Santon Downham.
Nuthatch close and distant. The river running through it.
The occasional scratch of Willow branches rubbing together
and the click of reeds catching too.

BramblingWheeze-210317

Bramblings nibbling the fresh shoots in the trees
at Hoe Rough.


Linnet-130317

Linnets at Kelling Heath


Frogs-0903172

Frog mating chorus from the pool at Beeston Common


Yellowhammer-050317

Yellowhammer and Chaffinch tuning up for the Spring.

February

DartfordWarbler0402171

A calm almost still day on a Norfolk Heath.
Just occasionally the Dartford Warbler churr sounded

MarshTit-140217

Marsh Tit at Santon Downham

SongThrush&Crow050217

The first tentative notes of the Song Thrush on the common accompanied by a Crow

EgyptianGoose050217

The insistent rasp of an Egyptian Goose on Felbrigg Lake

Siskin-140217

A liittle wheeze from a Siskin at Santon Downham