Notes on Nature TV 11: Beginner's guide to warblers
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- In this episode we look at ten warblers you might encounter in the UK. These birds are small and sometimes tricky to see but we think they perform some of the best birdsong! In this warbler ID guide there are tips on what to look and listen for, and comparisons between similar warblers.
Compare the chiffchaff and willow warbler: www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wil...
You can find out more about warblers here: www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wil...
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Brilliant description of the birds and their birdsong - thank you! I had a Blackcap in my tiny garden recently, feeding on my birdtable. I did see and identify both the Reed and Sedge Warblers on a walk a few years ago past reed and sedge beds at Prinsted, Hampshire - sadly, a selfish young couple bought the land by it, built a hideously big house and blocked off the public footpath used by locals for more than 20 years so they shouldn't have got away with it but Prinsted Parish Council couldn't win the case - very sad, and so selfish & mean! - I've never seen the couple using that strip of land and it's hidden from view from the house so they don't have to watch people walking by - the only consolation is that they haven't filled in the reedbed ditch so hopefully the Warblers are still there....
These are some nice birds. I see now why twichers from the UK who love warblers go crazy for the north American ones. Just so many more, and more variation in color over there.
Next time I'm in the UK in the summer I'll go looking for some of these.
Very good for beginners makes you appreciate you have to listen as well as look
Very interesting video, thank you. My budgie was listening too, he seemed to particularly like the garden warbler.
Fantasic clarity, appearance and sound clearly illustrated, thank you
Thank you, it is very informative and good to see and hear the birds.
This really helps to sort them out. thank you
Super - thanks.
Great to identify birds we heard and saw in Snowdonia last week.
Thank you for sharing, this was very interesting. Very well done .
Lived in London most of my life. But 7 years ago I emigrated to central Scotland. I now hear Wood warblers every year in the local woods. Never heard them in England.
Wow what a lovely species to have right on your doorstep!
Brilliant, I found this so helpful & so well explained, thank you very much
Good video - very informative
wExcellent photos, description and recordings. I could watch this many times.
Glad to hear that! Good luck searching for these wonderful warblers!
Lovely clear demonstration of different warblers. Thanks. Will take this with me when we are finally out and about where the wildlife is.!
Have fun! Let us know what you can find
Brilliant Information as ever! Thank-you
Nature is amazing, when you cannot always see them its helpful to have an idea on birdsong to help identify
It sure is isn't it! Glad you enjoyed
Excellent useful revision guide
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful and enjoyable short video clarifying the warblers. We have blackcap, chiff-chaff, willow and garden warblers here in Cowal (Southern Argyll) and I'm learning to distinguish the songs. I'll come back to this video and thank you very much for these interesting RSPB information snippets.
Yesterday I spotted a chiffchaff on a bush next to lidl
Great video. Very informative. Look forward to your next one.
Loved this video, I hope I'll spot some of these birds soon!
Thanks very much for the helpful video. We have amazingly and unexpectedly discovered that we heard a lesser whitethroat last May, in dense vegetation close to a lake which is local to us. I recorded the unusual call on my iPhone, as we could not see the bird at all! We will listen out for it again in May. Thanks for helping to identify it for us! We hear and see Cetti’s warblers regularly in a similar spot.
Wonderful! And how great that you managed to record it and listen back. No problem at all, enjoy!
Excellent. These wonderful little birds are difficult to identify but their song is hard to beat.
Definitely, hope this video will help!
Thank you for that, it was very helpful . I am new to birdwatching and thoroughly enjoyed your easy to understand video. Look forward to more 😁
Welcome to birdwatching! Thank you for watching, keep an eye out for more videos to build your knowledge
I was so excited to hear and even see a reed warbler in a small reed-bed a mile from my home. Thanks for confirming that this is what I heard.
Glad to help! Fantastic bird to see so close to home
Really helpful and interesting. The only one I knew for certain was the Black cap; I now realise that I may have been muddling Chiffchaffs and Willow warblers.
They can be tricky to tell apart, but hopefully you can use a couple tips and tricks from this video next time you're out!
Brilliant, although I may not be classed as a total beginner, it always takes me a while to identify these lovely little birds at the beginning of the summer. Thank you.
We all need a little reminder after winter, have fun birding!
Love this beginners guide, started notice the warbles and bird song when walking the dog, soo sweet, so now keen to identify them....:)
Glad it was helpful! Enjoy!
A great guide and very well presented, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoyed this and learned a lot. Not sure I'll remember it all though! I have really aporeciated the various reports you have posted, thank you.
Thank you for watching, can be hard to remember it all! Good tip is to focus on a couple species that you're likely to find in your area and start there.
Thanks so much for this. I attended a course in identifying woodland birds by their song at Aberystwyth University (we had some classroom tuition and then were taken to various woodland locations on a weekly basis) in 2011, led by a RSPB reserve warden and a BTO man. Currently, I live and work on a farm in the Scottish Highlands and am enjoying the sounds of curlew, snipe (drumming mid-flight) and oystercatchers, as well as the beautiful song of woodland birds here on a daily basis. The course in Wales really set me on my journey of spotting and identifying birds, and videos like these are so helpful for extending one’s knowledge, and are very much appreciated. Keep them coming!
Excellent video. It has helped me differentiate between 2 of my garden warblers. The willow warbler and the garden warbler. So beautiful to listen to. Thankyou .
Aw glad you find it useful! Thanks for watching
Great images, very helpful.
Glad you like them!
always excellent
Thanks a lot!
Great video - thank you for making it!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video, but you missed off the Grasshopper Warbler!
Great video.Very helpful thanks.
You're welcome! Thank you
our garden has 3 regular summer warblers, chiffchaff, willow warbler and black cap, all of whom reproduce. they have been living with me, just in the summer now (sometimes stayed over winter but no longer), and have been coming here for nearly 30 years - only see them when they first arrive, as they wander through the bushes in front of my large windows (where the birds watch me from hahahaha - they watch me like i watch them - i always think it is just to let me know they are back - and then i don't see them until i miss their song later in the year when they pack up and go home
What a treat to have three warbler species visiting your garden, and for so long! Thanks for watching
Loved this, thanks 👍🏼
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really informative a great help for my limited knowledge. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent presentation.
Thanks for watching! Enjoy
Loved this , thank you! Saw my first black cap last week.
Amazing, great spot!
Great video - very helpful 👍🏻
Thank you I know the Cettis and have seen it at Rainham Marshes the willow and garden warblers I can identify from my home area and the sedge and Reed warbler I've seen at Dungeness so I'm learning 😊💚👍
Great information as always. Hoping to hear some of the warblers described on my forthcoming visit to local RSPB site at Burton Mere
A fabulous reserve, let us know how you get on!
coin-spinner😍 ,love the colours❤
Stunning aren't they!
Wonderful video,probably the only one I'll be sure of is the Chiffchaff. Warblers are quite marvellous little birds.
They really are marvellous aren't they, hopefully you can use this video to identify a couple more species!
Very useful !!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very hard to see and tell apart and I find them hard to tell their song apart . So video invaluable
Always have to revise birdsong each spring so this is useful
Always need a little refresher after the winter months! Glad it was helpful
loved it
Thank you!
Loved this. Can we have one for common garden birds? Tits and thrushes (wrens too)?
Lovely
Thank you!
nice video I really liked it and I hope to use some of these identification skills for birding and my youtube channel.
Thank you, enjoy!
I have just identified a Black Cap by its song in our garden in coastal Essex, confirmed by a sighting near our feeders. It’s a first for our garden!
Wow amazing! And a first for your garden, let us know if you find anymore!
look out for the female - brown cap and beige body - love it with the male black cap and grey body - usually seen together!
Really like the beginner's guides approach, but probably because I've only just decided to become a birder.
Thanks for watching! So much to look forward to
This is really helpful thank you.
Hey, you say some come from the South in the Summer. Why is this? Is it warmer here than where they've left from? A beginners question.😀
Getting into Nature, birds in particular has been a uplifted during 2020-21
Thank you for watching and great question! Many species like to chase the summer sun essentially, and it's all about food. The best food for them is insects, which prefer warmer weather. So when it gets too cold for them here, the birds head south in search of food! Hope that helps and happy birding!
I’m still none the wiser. I’ve recently moved to Scotland in the countryside near water and forests, fields etc. Something is warbling away first thing in the morning last thing at night. It is here but i can’t SEE it. It’s got so bad i DREAMT about it last night. It’s either a Blackcap or……the other one. Birds are different here…😃
While out walking this evening in forestry commission land near where I live I heard a grasshopper warbler. You didn’t mention this in your video. Do you have any information on this bird, please?
Wow, thanks for sharing Anne! We may cover this species in a future video along with a couple other warblers, you can find out more on our website in the meantime: www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/grasshopper-warbler/
do you know the tree that the chiffchaff is in please loving watch
The image of the chiffchaff at 0:47, is sitting in what looks like a willow tree.
@@pauldurkee4764 I agree.
How come the Dartford Warbler was left out?
Good question, we wanted to focus on some of the more widespread, migrant species in this video. But we can talk about other species like Dartford and grasshopper warbler in the future! Thank you
I used to have chiff chaffs come to eat the dead flies I swept out of my house in Extremadura (wild west of Spain) in November. they would be looking for insects on tree bark and on house exteriors in little flocks all winter. together with the resident Sardinian warbler ...
Wow great to see both of these species!
@@RSPBVideo well one was utterly spoilt for birds there - cornbuntings singing from the tops of olive trees, hoopoes nesting in the bottom of an olive tree right in front of the house, cranes flying over, a short toed eagle stooping on a snake close to the house, vultures, eagle owls hooting every night ..... you name it ...
@@RSPBVideo and this morning in Fife, 2 willow warblers and 2 black caps singing on the steep woody path with plenty of scrub and gorse, and yellowhammers and larks above and beyond. just wish I had more birds in the garden, new to me, not much wild-life-friendly gardening amongst my neighbours ...
Good video but why no Grasshopper Warbler?
Thanks Stephen! Ten of the most common warblers felt like enough for people to watch this time, but we'd love to include grasshopper warblers in a future video.
Sadly, I have only about 30% hearing, so I doubt I'll be able to take advantage of this knowledge. I'm hopeless at wee birds, except for tits, and I also can't do waders unless their name is descriptive. But the recordings are lovely.
Hi Liz, we're glad you enjoyed the recordings, warblers can be tricky to see but keep an eye out on the branches of trees and shrubs for them hoping around. A good tip for birding is to start with a few "easier" species and get to know them really well, and build up from there :)