Saturday 6 May 2017

Geltsdale ... Golden Plovers ... singing Ring Ouzels

The season moves on ... Golden Plovers were singing only early in the morning this week ... as I walked the boundary fence one was calling nervously from vegetation on the estate side ...



But Ring Ouzels were much more vocal with birds singing from different places ...

... one was producing two distinct songs ...

... the first was what I think of as the typical song ... two, three or four pure whistled notes ...



... the second was a series of three similar notes but with a much more buzzy quality ...


The sonograms illustrate the different quality of the notes.  ( A Willow Warbler song is just ending before the first song - traces show on the sonogram. )




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