Saturday 9 June 2012

The "Reed" Warbler...

Spent a pleasant couple of hours trying to get images of the very vocal Hadston marsh warbler this afternoon. The clouds had lifted and the rain ceased, but the wind speed was not complimentary to a singing warbler - with the majority of viewing of the bird low in the reeds/scrub.

Most views were mid-range, but on a couple of instances he came very close - only to be obscured by reed!

Still, not often you get good views of marsh warbler, so thou shalt not complain... Lots of mimicry too, with barn swallow, blackbird, oystercatcher and common tern all thrown in for good measure!


2 comments:

kirstallcreatures said...

Nice pics of the Reed Warbler, especially the second one in full song

John Malloy said...

Thanks - the title was a play on the habitat rather than the species(its a marsh warbler!)