The lands around our house are filled with bird song, the greatest concentrations of noise being where woodland meets open space, where we're hearing....
....yellowhammers perched on spruce shoots which protrude above the flower-covered gorse patches this bird so favours.
The most common birdsong is that of the robin, the wren, the chaffinch and the warblers. This is a chiffchaff, and this is the same bird seen....
....from an even more undignified angle.
I confess that I can only easily tell the difference between chiffchaff and....
....willow warbler by their song. While this willow warbler was on the margins of the forestry....
....this one was singing from a tree immediately opposite our front door.
While it is wonderful to be able to see these birds, the explosion of leaves in the deciduous trees makes finding them increasingly difficult, and this is where the Merlin app has been a game changer because now, if we can't see the bird, at least we can identify it by its song.
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