On Friday morning (26th) while leaving the boat I was certain I'd heard a
Yellow-browed Warbler calling from the nearby willows, literally yards away from the boat. A good search of the area around the canal junction and mooring, unfortunately, proved fruitless.
I was away in Suffolk for the weekend visiting friends, arriving back on Sunday evening and with the clear skies and NN-Easterly winds expected overnight, I was keen to complete a nocmig (recording of nocturnal bird migration). The recording took place between 23:30hrs and 06:00hrs and yielded some excellent results, which can be found
HERE.
This morning I'd decided to leave the speakers and microphone on while getting ready to head off, listening to the local Magpies, Jackdaws, Robins and more passing Thrushes. You can imagine my surprise when suddenly a
Yellow-browed Warbler began to call once more, pretty close by! I immediately turned the recorder on as the bird continued to call. (
listen to above xeno-canto)
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| Yellow-browed Warbler ~ My 1st record for Warwickshire |
Once again I began a complete a search of the area and while doing this decided to call another local birder and nocmigger Theo de Clermont to aid the search, probably dragging him out of bed. Theo arrived some 30-minutes later but within minutes I'd spotted a small bird at treetop level, a
Yellow-browed Warbler, my 1st Warwickshire record and once more right on my doorstep.
