Song ID, Pennines, South Yorks (1 Viewer)

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antpitta26

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• Apr 22, 2019

• #1

Hi all, you can ignore the willow warbler, wren and chiffchaff etc, its the Sylvia warbler i am not sure about - sounds fast for blackcap but not continuous or scratchy enough for garden warbler. I always have trouble with these two every spring! - thanks!

 

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lou salomon

the birdonist

• Apr 22, 2019

• #2

it's a dodgy blackcap.

 

PYRTLE

Old Berkshire Boy

• Apr 22, 2019

• #3

Agree to Blackcap.

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Apr 22, 2019

• #4

Blackcap for me too. Garden is lower pitched, slower, more rambling; and also rarely before the start of May (unless you go a lot further south!).

 

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antpitta26

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• Apr 23, 2019

• #5

Thanks. Yes my first garden warbler wasn't til April 28th last year

 

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trw

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• Apr 23, 2019

• #6

antpitta26 said:

Thanks. Yes my first garden warbler wasn't til April 28th last year

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Rule of thumb: flutey Blackcap, bubbling Garden Warbler.
The Garden Warbler is generally more low key and not as obvious and as strident as Blackcap.
I can generally hear a Blackcap from a good distance away, whereas I don't hear a Garden Warbler till I'm generally close to the bush or whatever they're perched on, singing.
Works for me.
Up north, Garden Warblers are later.
In Cumbria the median date for arrival is 22nd April for Garden Warbler, whereas Blackcaps have been around for a couple of weeks already.