June in the Vale of Pewsey. Here's the sun rising over the Alton Barnes white horse.We're moored near All Cannings, and it's one of those rare places where you can hear the dawn chorus uninterrupted by traffic noise.
In this clip you can hear the blackbird and wren, and a few other birds too...
The whitethroats are calling all along the canal...
...as are the reed warblers, and, increasingly, the sedge warblers. Similar sort of calls, but the reed warbler sounds more like a clockwork tank rolling along, while the sedge warbler is more like a steam-powered fax machine that's just about to blow up
they can be tricky to tell apart, but I know this one's a reed warbler
if it quacks like a duck...
the hemlock water dropwort is everywhere, too. I had to chop a path through it to get ashore. And then wash my hands....
An A400 Atlas flying past. Salisbury Plain's on fire again; artillery practice on parched ground, happens regularly
I love your descriptions of different bird calls!
ReplyDeletethank you! It's always a challenge to try to describe them
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