Dedication (1 Viewer)

Today (admittedly a couple of days after the report) I went to see if I could year tick Lesser Whitethroat and Garden Warbler, plus anything else that might appear.

I stood in the same spot at Warsash (in Hampshire) for close on 3 hours and saw very little. Apart from seawatching, I think this is the longest I have ever stared at the same group of bushes.

I must be mad!

WEB

After 3 hours I'd have been hallucinating both! ;-) (Or possibly Rocs and Dodos)

Tip: try to chose your bushes carefully! Some hints that can help:
1. Bushes in a sunny spot, and sheltered from the wind.
2. Bushes with a good crop of small, ripe fruit - elder berries are starting to ripen now and often eaten by Sylvia warblers.
3. Bushes with conspicuously heavy insect infestations, e.g. covered in greenfly.
4. Avoid dense plantings of non-native ornamental shrubs - they rarely offer a good supply of insect food (as mostly, the insects that feed on them were not introduced with the shrubs).

I ticked all of the above, I am not a total numpty ;-)