A lovely hour at Le Grand Pré this morning. Good sights (really!) of the Cetti’s Warbler as it was flying to and fro across the pond. Also present were Chiffchaff hunting insects in the willows. A Reed Warbler was chuntering and I had a lovely view of this Sedge Warbler down close to the water.
Perhaps best of all was on my way back to the car when I heard a Grasshopper Warbler ‘reeling’. Fortuitous as I recognised it straight away – yesterday I had been listening to some migrant songs and preparing a tape for bird ringing and Grasshopper Warbler was on the list. There’s no mistaking that long whirring call. Even better – the first one heard on Guernsey this year! To hear its unique call, go to https://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Locustella-naevia
Even the Coot was looking good in the early morning sunshine.
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Natural history of the Bailiwick of Guernsey 