In early May my friend Alison and I went to Fingringhoe nature reserve in Essex to hear the nightingales sing. They only sing for a few weeks each year, while they are establishing territories in the spring. I recorded a minute of birdsong on my phone - the quality's not great, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what they sound like. I was about ten metres away from the bird when I recorded this one. They're pretty hard to see, being small and brown and fond of hiding in the middle of dense bushes, (so the picture on this movie is not, sadly, mine), but very very loud!
There are two birds in this second recording, plus the occasional BANG from the crop scarers in the fields nearby!
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