Lesser Whitethroat! By a factory!
#BrumsBirdlife 😎✨👌

Gravel pits - 400+ Garganey, 80+ Shoveler, 2 Black w stilt, 3 Hoopoe, Northern, Isabelline, Cyprus & Black eared wheatears, 40+ Short toed lark, 12 Tawny pipit, Redstart, Subalpine warbler, 35+ Lesser whitethroat, 20+ Chiffchaff, Masked shrike, 9 Cretzchmars bunting #cyprusbirds

A Chiffchaff collecting feathers.
When brooding, the f will leave the nest frequently to feed - as much as every 30/40 mins!
Important then, that the nest is lined with a thick thermal insulation of feathers.
Other warblers like the Blackcap & Whitethroat have grass-lined nests.

One from this morning, Common Whitethroat with lunch so todays thread dinner time

Another good day for common migrants here with 27 willow warbler, reeling grasshopper warbler, 3 common Redstart single tree pipit, 9 lesser whitethroat c40 blackcap 10+ whitethroat c20 chiff 5 sprawk,

The sun was shining today at Wat Tyler Country Park!

40 birds were caught (New/Retrap)

Blackcap 8/2
Greenfinch 7
Lesser Whitethroat 5
Chiffchaff 2
Dunnock 1/2
Blue Tit 1/2
Cetti’s Warbler 1/1
Blackbird 1/1
Goldfinch 1/1
Wren 1
Chaffinch 1
Robin 0/1
Great Tit 0/1

#BirdRinging

Stanford Reservoir - 5 Common Sand on the dam this AM. Three additions to the 2024 patch list yesterday - 3 vocal, fly through Redshank, Lssr Whitethroat & Reed Warbler. Goldeneye still around with an increase to 9 birds. Stanford_RG Birds of Leicestershire & Rutland

Lesser whitethroat

Common whitethroat taking a bath

#NaturalBeauty #nature #birds #NaturePhotograhpy

Elmore Court rewilding area this afternoon, 3 Stonechats, a Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warblers, a Common Whitethroat,a Lesser Whitethroat, a Reed Bunting, 6 Skylarks, 4 Stock Doves a Red Kite, Buzzard and a Kestrel #GlosBirds

The beauty of #BrumsBirdlife at Queslett Nature Reserve with my first Common Whitethroat singing today 😎

Hernekerttu • Ärtsångare • Lesser Whitethroat
(Sylvia curruca)

First Common Whitethroat of the year. Naturally, I took a little footage of it singing. Very distinctive. Upper College Farm, Bexley

Whitethroat leasowe lighthouse

Birds arriving in Spring. Common Whitethroat
RSPB
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#GlosBirds Saul Warth late afternoon, a Whimbrel still, a Common Sandpiper at Hook Cliff, 30+'Shelducks, 2 Stonechats, 2 Common Whitethroats a Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Stock Doves a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Reed Bunting a male Kestrel plus 100+ Swallows and Martins.

Lesser Whitethroat, Goldcliff lagoons,
Gwent, April 2024.

Male Whitethroat (Wickwar) South Glos Birds! BristolBirding

A significant migrant fall this morning Bibbey’s Wild Farms
Male & female Common Redstart, with the male constantly being mobbed by the Robins
Garden Warbler
3 Lesser Whitethroat (earliest ever by 6 days)
3 Willow Warbler (occasional on farms)
Loads of Chiffchaff & Blackcap