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Geoff Mullett
 Post subject: Willow warblers
PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:30 pm 
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Two calling from bushes in the garden this pm. Female blackcap at feeder again.

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Hi Geoff

Were your Willow Warblers calling or singing? There have only been a couple of reports in the whole country so far this 'spring' and none have arrived at south coast hotspots such as Dungeness http://www.dungenessbirdobs.org.uk/lateframe.html or Portland http://www.portlandbirdobs.org.uk/aa_latestnews.htm yet....

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Calling. Couldn't catch sight of them but if not WW, can't think what else they could have been. Definitely not chiffchaff. Would have thought it was well into their migration now, I thought they started around end Feb.
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Hi Geoff

The first big push of Willow Warblers is typically in the first week of April - see: http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/res ... 20-08.html Chiffchaffs 'return' much earlier but then many will have wintered in NW Europe already and get a head start. Conditions this spring have been entirely unsuitable for returning Sub-Saharan migrants and look set to stay that way until at least the mid/end of next week: http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW- ... 1/wind/in/ Check out: http://www.bto.org/migwatch/text/species/wilwa.htm as well for 1st dates etc....

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How do you use that site? I can get information only for 2004...... what I am looking for are records that show how many Swallows have arrived in the UK.......
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Ian Misselbrook
 Post subject: Willow Warblers
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I would suggest they were Chiffchaffs. I heard my first singing Chiffchaff last weekend (albeit in Cambs) but many are now wintering in England and are inclined to sing on sunny days. The contact call of both species, usually described as "Hooeet" is very similar, at least to my ears.

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Geoff Mullett
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Could have been chiffchaffs, although the "Hooeet" was much softer than I've heard before from that species.
Anyway, I'll bow to the record book!

Happy sledging!

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Alex Lees
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Katherine Birkett wrote:
How do you use that site? I can get information only for 2004...... what I am looking for are records that show how many Swallows have arrived in the UK.......


Hi Katherine

try: http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/res ... 20-08.html

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