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Hi,
Opened the door this morning to let dog out and greeted by a great warbler singing away in the garden. We're just back from 10 days wild camping in an RV in Estonia, so this was a familiar beginning to the day. Thought I was having a flash-back, but it continued for about 10 minutes until a barking dog came by and that was that.
This was the second new species in the garden this month, with a Wood warbler singing not long before we went to Estonia. Again, I was just out in the morning , taking the rubbish to the bin, when it dawned on me that there was a wood warbler singing. It also hung around only 10 minutes or so before moving on north. Wood warbler turned out to be the commonest singing warbler in both broad leaved and coniferous forests in Estonia, which quite surprised me.
New birds in the garden are few and far between these days, the last being a dusky warbler checking away just outside the garden in the reserve last October.
Sitting here typing this in the garden in warm sunshine, on my second John Smiths, with a pair of turtle doves above me, the male purring away. What could be better.
Butterflies around me are red admiral, speckled wood and orange tip.
Regards,
Cliff
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