Reed warblers are none too easy to find around here mainly because there are so few reeds, most suitable locations having been turned over to poplar plantations. There is a small stand of phragmites on the Son-sonette near Valence and it usually has a pair in the summer so it was no surprise when cycling by yesterday to hear a bird doing its endless, monotonous chattering. Other migrant warblers that were around were blackcaps, whitethroat, chiffchaff and melodious but there was nothing to be heard of the resident Cetti's.
Nightingales were singing and cuckoos calling but perhaps the most interesting bird sound of the day was of tree pipits whose song ends with a cadence that always reminds me of waders.
Common redstarts have been elusive for me this spring but a male appeared in the garden a day or two back.
The sun is shining as I write but May is still rather a chill affair; perhaps the Charente summer will start to kick in before the month is out.
No comments:
Post a Comment