05 Friday Jul 2024
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During recent walks I’ve often heard a distinctive buzzing sound coming from the trees and bushes as I’ve walked past. The sound comes from Whitethroats; at this time of year it’s usually a family of adults and their fledglings keeping in contact as they forage for food. With the vegetation now dense, almost impenetrable in places, I don’t often see the birds but, this day, I got lucky when a juvenile Whitethroat paused briefly in a gap in the foliage.
10 Tuesday Aug 2021
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We’re still in that quiet birding time when most birds are hiding away in trees and bushes while they undergo their annual moult and autumn migration is only just beginning. Luckily, the fledglings are still providing occasional moments of birding joy.
When I was wandering a local nature reserve last week, I heard the nasal buzzer-like call of two Whitethroats foraging in the scrubby field edges and was delighted to watch them for ten minutes or more as they moved in and out of the bushes, scavenging very successfully for juicy insects and their larvae.
11 Thursday Jun 2020
Another day, another family of birds, this time a family of Whitethroats that entertained me during yesterday’s walk.
I was alerted to their presence in shrubs and low trees alongside the path by the odd contact call they make, a kind of buzzing or churring ‘tzzeeet tzzeeet’.
So, I stayed still, watched and waited, and was rewarded with good views of the two adults moving frantically about in the vegetation, trying to find enough insects to feed their three hungry youngsters.
