WARBLERS

The four warblers you might expect to hear at Filnore Woods are chiffchaff, blackcap, willow warbler, whitethroat and lesser whitethroat.  I do believe I heard a garden warbler once but I'm not sure.

I can certainly identify the chiffchaff because it sings its name

and the blackcap - there are several singing at the moment, sounding a bit like a blackbird but with out the sneeze at the end.  

The less commonly heard willow warbler has a plaintiff little song on a descending minor scale, like a feather drifting to earth.  It looks very like the chiffchaff.

But whitethroats, lesser whitethroats and the rest are a bit harder.

There's some good stuff n youtube if you want to find out more.