A great deal of Saturday the 2nd of May 2015 was spent at Whisby Nature Park in Lincolnshire, with the elusive Nightingale. This local nature reserve has become famous in recent years for one of our best songsters. Izaak Walton, a famous English writer, wrote about the song of the Nightingale – “breathes such sweet lowd music out of her littel instrumentall throat that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased”. How true.
During the day we had at least 5 singing birds and two showed reasonably well. Also numerous warblers in song including several Lesser Whitethroat. A couple of Mediterranean Gulls were present in the large colonies of Black-headed Gull. The year list moves on to 194
Sunday morning, May 3rd – Staunton Harold Reservoir. A couple of Patch Year Ticks this morning, a nice Peregrine, soaring over the reservoir and at last a Sedge Warbler. These two took my year list at Staunton Harold to 87.
Nightingale – Whisby NP, Lincolnshire – Tony Davison©
Good stuff Tony.
Thanks Richard