Tuesday, 1 December 2020

WINTER SONGSTERS

Most birds are fairly quiet during winter, but these two, the robin and the wren continue to defend their territories with their defiant songs.


The robin has a tuneful, delicate and rather plaintive song, whereas the wren's vigorous four-verse recital includes a cheery churring bit towards the end.

Listen to this recording by Jed Deadlock .  There are several others on youtube but I included this one because ends with the 'tik tik tik' alarm call, warning other birds that there is a cat or some other threat about.

And for a wren song here is a video by Paul Dinning .

Many thanks, Jed and Paul.










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