Been catching up with Bird Sex book stuff today, after an early morning visit to Lakenheath Fen. Male golden oriole singing well, plus bittern booming, hobby, kestrel, buzzard and several marsh harriers and the usual cacophony of warblers (including grasshopper, briefly). Then shimmied down to Maidscross Hill for... nightingales! One singing very clearly (although 11am by this stage), and another fitfully. Plus garden warbler in fine voice, linnets, yellowhammers, willow warblers aplenty and stone-curlews calling from across the lane - probably nesting in the beet field there. Also a small heath tootling about.
Then, this evening the chap above appeared on the TV aerial and gave a fabulous show - seem to be more song thrushes around than a few years back. Unclear whether he is unmated or just reinforcing his territory, but he was unstoppable for the best part of half an hour!
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