Hi
I've been trying to identify a bird song in my garden for ages. For a few years a bird comes in summer and signs in the young trees in the field at the back of my garden.
I always thought it sounded like a nightingale but as I'm in the Scottish Highlands it seemed unlikely.
I saw it today and also caught a recording and I'm 99% sure it's a nightingale.
Is this unusual to have them so far North? The distribution maps seem to only place them in the South.
Thanks so much!
Can you post your recording? It would be very unusual for a nightingale to be in the Highlands but nothing is out of the question this year also have a listen to a male Blackcap - it is sometimes known as the British Nightingale but it would be an odd time of year for it to be in full song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkBVToXR9I
Another possible is a one of the thrushes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0TutC60xzw. I have been woken up by a Song Thrush singing late at night
Cin J
Here is a recording of the song, let me know what you think! It didn't look like a blackcap when I saw it this morning. It was a plain brown small bird, didn't look like a thrush at all but I guess the song is quite similar.
I'm getting Sedge Warbler?
Yes! I think that's it, just had a listen and it does sound the same!