lesser whitethroat sylvia curruca

Last weekend we were on Landsort in the archipelago with 26 other members of Biofoto. Glorious weather and not too warm. We saw lots of birds including some brightly-coloured male Common Rosefinches. No decent pictures of those unfortunately but I took an awful lot of pictures of Arctic Terns...

Saw lots of Lesser Whitethroats and Whitethroats on Landsort. It's the national day in Sweden today and I'm off work tomorrow so we're traveling to Tkern a famous lake for birds a couple of hours from Stockholm. Hope to finally see Bearded Tits. Back on Saturday evening. I'm taking my laptop...

Nearly every day I saw these birds in the same tree, in the garden, hunting insects at the top of the perches. Every time I tried to get closer the birds went to the lower end of the perches hiden by leafs. It took me about one month to find a place not to frighten them and to be close enough...

Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

Lesser Whitethroat

It took me a couple of days to find out birds were fallowing the same route. Landing in the hedge, jumping in the bush and then in the tree nearby. I only had to point the camera to the right perch and wait. This is one of the photos I made.

'Showing well' for a couple of seconds! This one has set-up territory around the car park area of Burbage Common Extension area.