Tufted Duck have bred on the Magic Garden pond, the first
breeding for a number of years. There were nine ducklings there tonight. Tufted
must be remarkably discrete nesters as I haven’t seen any evidence of the birds there for a number of weeks and I
had assumed the pair seen in May had gone.
Also masses of Froglets moving through the grass this evening
A few days ago I spent a long time trying to locate a sylvia warbler that was singing in thick foliage. It was very quiet but was singing almost continuously and because
of that assumed it was probably a Garden Warbler. In fact it turned out to be a
male Blackcap.
I have often heard quiet singing (known as subsong)
before but only outside the breeding
season and I have assumed it’s either young birds learning adult song or birds
‘humming’ to themselves but this intense quiet singing in the
breeding season seemed different. There was a female Blackcap present in the
same tree so I can only assume it’s some reaction to the close proximity of a
mate? .
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