Nightingales

After a few days of seawatching that has grudgingly yielded most of what we were after (a post-work charge down to the sea for a Pom paid off at the second attempt), we went for a proper walk, to Pulborough Brooks.  It proved productive, with the hoped-for Wood Sandpiper and Ruff still there.  Hobbies were everywhere, a plastic White Stork was on the north brooks and there were plenty of Nightingales.  They seemed to be showy this year, one even sitting in a treetop yelling its head off.  A detour looking for owls on the way home (limited success) gave us a dusk encounter with a hare as we walked through a wood.  The daft thing lolloped along the track up to about 10 m from us, and even then it didn’t run, just stepped off the track and started browsing.

A very noisy Goldcrest in our front garden this morning gave some nice views.

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Nightingale
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Hobby
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A Nightingale's tonsils, probably the loudest Nightingale I've ever heard.
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Nightingales hide in dense cover to sing. One didn't get that memo...
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It must have seen us...
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... but still it lollops on
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Goldcrest