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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve G" data-source="post: 1494441" data-attributes="member: 4381">In late April into May I had three reeling birds at a small LNR in West Fife -then they were gone!I went there recently to try to photograph Garden Warblers -alas unsuccessfully. I was sitting on a wooden bench near where one of the groppers had been singing -but all was quiet, they had "clearly" moved on. My mp3 player had a poor recording of one of the Groppers taken in late April. Almost as a flight of fancy I played this recording back and was stunned when a Gropper appeared at the base of a Whin bush barely two metres away. It give a short rattling trill before disappearing back into the bush!!  This experience is by no means convincing proof but I suspect that most of the birds we have reeling in suitable habitat in April go on to settle down & breed. How many of us visit these sites at dawn to check anyway??!!</blockquote>