Many of our best songsters like to advertise the fact by performing some sort of display flight from flappy tumbling Lapwings to the scratching bouncy up and down song flight of the male Whitethroat; all have one thing on their mind... to show off to the females and proclaim a territory.

Skylarks do this with great aplomb from a great height with a far carrying song that descends back to earth...

The lark arising - (Bill Crooks)

While down below the male Sedge Warbler manically sings from his chosen bramble before suddenly changing his tune and leaping up into the air to perform a mad whirring parchute flight back to another favoured perch...

Sedgie in mid freefall! (Michael Frankling)