What an achievement: not just the clear recordings but with the video clear enough to identify each bird as it sings. Thank you! That is a real treasure.
Thank you for your kind comment Josi, To be honest it was a labour of love visiting the various habitats and tracking down the birds. You're right in thinking it needed a lot of patience but I never thought about it because it was so enjoyable..The one I needed to complete the set was the Garden Warbler. I had a hot tip about a place where one nested last year and i was going to do a Garden Warbler special this spring. i waited through that wet, miserable winter looking forward to getting some great footage and then we were placed in lockdown. Never mind there's always next year!
Thankyou for your time & dedication to produce this video. I am thrilled to know I have Willow, Reed, Chiff Chaff & possibly more warblers in my garden with a Reed warbler nest also discovered ( & left). I have been trying to entice wildlife for 3yrs, what a reward!
So pleased. to have found this. Excellent work - as others have said both in video and sound. So useful just now as most of the birds I'm hearing are very well hidden in the foliage!
Thank you David. It’s a work I started after the manager of RSPB Newport was good enough to point out the sound of a Lesser Whitethroat. Almost immediately I heard and saw one so I have tried to help viewers in a similar way.
Thank you very much for this wonderful video.. at 64 just trying to learn the birds in my area in Pembrokeshire and really enjoying it...this is very helpful 😀👍
Thank you so much Andrew, glad it was helpful! I've been gathering more footage for a sequel in 4K but I was out of action for much of last year after a foot operation and some species are hard to track down, especially if you don't have full mobility! Pembrokeshire is a wonderful county for birding with many rarities reported over the years.
Great video John. Wonderful photography. With the exception of the Dartford Warbler and the Savi I see all of these at my local gravel pit reserve. The Cetti stays all year long now.
Eddy W. Thanks so much Eddy, yes the Cetti’s is firmly established in the U.K. now. You’re very lucky seeing all those locally! I had to travel to Dorset for the Dartford Warbler, although one was seen fleetingly in my local reserve, Savi’s has visited us three times in ten years but still hasn’t bred here ( as far as we know) Have to travel up to higher ground for Wood Warblers!
Heard the first chiffchaffs today. I am so glad that I hit on this: the filming is as good as the sound recordings. I dare not think how long it took you to put them together. I will be using this a lot this summer, I hope. And I loved the bonus cuckoo. Many thanks.
Oh my gosh John, I am amazed by all of the warblers you were able to capture :) I loved hearing their songs & admiring their beauty. My hat really goes off to you with respect as I know it requires a great deal of time and patience to capture moments like these. This was so much fun to watch as I know the only way I will ever see these birds is through what you have captured here. I think my favorite is the grasshopper warbler, wow can that little one do his call for an eternity ♥ Big like & wishing you a wonderful week
I’m so happy that you loved this video Heather. You’re right about it taking a while - about five years between the first and latest videos and lots of time in between spent in woods, lanes and reed beds recording the birds. Of course it was really a labour of love and being out in nature is good for the soul! Hope you have a wonderful week too!
Thank you John - you've just helped me to identify the tiny but very loud bird I saw earlier in watermeadows near Oxford - Lesser Whitethroat. A new life tick for me!
Brilliant photography and sound recording. These include some of my favourite birds. The common next to where I live had dozens of white throats breeding this summer, so I got to be very familiar with that bird. Total ball of energy..
What a great project. I live near RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve and have heard these birds and after watching and listening to this, I'm pretty sure i've heard a Dartford Warbler around here too.
Thank you so much for this. I think I would still struggle when out and about to tell the difference, but have this video in my favourites to refer to if we are out and I hear something that sounds similar!
Thanks Lewis, it's great to know that it's being used to I.D. birds which is what I hope for when I uploaded it. That's a brilliant reply to cheer me up in the lockdown, really appreciate you taking the time to comment. All the best!
An incredible film. Very precious and so valuable. Anybody curious about that bird song in the wood or in the field and garden need only keep this film as their reference point. Thank you so much John :)
Thank you so much Vincent, it’s really heartening to know that it’s still being watched and helping people with bird I.D. I made it after the former manager of RSPB Newport Wetlands helped me by identifying the call of a Lesser Whitethroat and from there it was only a short time before I saw one. All the best with your birding. :)
Thank you Shalom, great to know it is being appreciated! My inspiration to produce it came when the helpful manager of my local RSPB reserve identified the sound of a Lesser Whitethroat and it enabled me to locate and record the bird.
@@johnluk I was over at Blashford Lakes, Ringwood the other day and was curiously listening to a bird and asked a couple what it was and they said it was a Common Whitethroat. It didn’t show itself unfortunately. Incidentally all the hides are still shut there.
Thank you for this video! During the first lockdown, I was at the family home next to some woodland. Sat every morning in the garden with a cup of coffee surrounded by birdsong and found myself enchanted by a willow warbler. Get taken straight back to that time whenever I hear the song again. Glad to see my little one got a tasty treat!
Thank you for making this helpful video. I’ve searched high and low to try and find out which bird makes a particular sound in the woodland near us. A wood warbler! 😅 Now I know. Thank you
@@johnluk Yes, we are very fortunate to live next to woodland. Which brings a good variety of birds to our garden. I haven’t managed to see it yet but hopefully I will before long.
Glad you liked it! We had a bird that returned to the same spot for three years but I haven’t seen any there for two years now 😢 We’ve has three Savi’s in 5 years though!
Thank you so muchJohn, it’s great to know my work is being appreciated. I was very lucky to see them all and some of the species have proved elusive since producing this collection.
Thank you for your kind comments Knut, glad you enjoyed it. I had the idea to record every one of our warblers a few years ago but some of them proved a bit tricky to capture, the last one I needed to complete the set was the Garden Warbler and boy are they camera shy! I could only see one on the other side of a river and hidden by leaves but hey, that's wildlife for you, they're unpredictable!
Thanks Rick. Love that it’s helped you with bird ID! I made it after a friend helped me to identify a Lesser Whitethroat a few years ago and it was so helpful I decided to start this project.
Many thanks! It's wonderful to get such a positive comment from someone who really appreciates the difficulties from personal experience. Hope you have a great weekend!
Superb video and audio. You won't believe how helpful this is, to hear the songs matched with the actual bird, so very grateful thanks to you for your hard work in recording and collating all this. I have saved it for future reference. I heard a bird today near The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, that I can't identify - sadly not one of those in your video as far as I can tell. But if I hadn't been trying to discover that, I would not have found this excellent video!
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, It's great to know it was helpful. If you managed to record it there's a free bird app called Merlin that will attempt to do an identification by sound, it also does photo ID. Definitely worth having and would have helped you when you were out in the field. If there are a number of species it will list what it can hear. If you do find out please let me know what it was. There have been a number of Golden Orioles recently and one was heard on Brownsea Island when I was there in May.
Thanks lan, glad it was helpful! Join the club on the hearing problem, I'm reluctantly coming to the conclusion that I might need a hearing aid as I'm always having to ask my wife to repeat things!
Thank you very much! I struggle with identifying warblers, and this helped me more than ever. I have a little reed warbler that I call Dojo living right outside my window. I was only able to identify him thanks to this song. A beautiful bird, can't lie
Thank you Martin, W.W. Is certainly a sound that heralds the start of summer, usually a week to ten days after the Chiffchaff. Garden Warblers are the most challenging to film as they don’t arrive until the trees are well covered with leaves and like to sing from cover.
Wonderful video. Really helpful for comparisons. I find it difficult to differentiate when there are several species singing at once, as they do at this time of year.
I live in the Netherlands, but nevertheless a very helpful video. I am sure I've heard the lesser whitethroat, but have never seen him. I did see the whitethroat the day before yesterday for the first time😆. The ChiffChaff is in a tree close to my house every day. The willow warbler I still have to find. I heard it yesterday, but couldn't find it in the tree. And in the park I saw the blackcap a few times. Hope to see the others some day as well. Thank you for this video😊.
Thank you so much. Great to know my video is proving useful. I know exactly what you mean about the Willow Warbler. I’ve also stood under a tree hearing but unable to see the bird. Good luck with seeing the other species!😊
Thanks for watching, I know it's a long video but it's been an ambition of mine to try to capture all our warblers singing. Now I'm aiming to do it all again in 4K but that's likely to take a few years as for some reason the birds don't always turn up and sing when you want them to!
Thank you. This is very good - but it would be even more helpful if you had left onscreen the name of the bird singing, rather than only briefly at the beginning of each.
Fantastic video, thanks so much! We now know the bird we heard in the reeds at a London nature reserve wasn't any of the warblers! The quest continues to find out what it was...
Thank you Nigel, glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful. If you are in that situation in the future you could try the (free) Merlin App which has a ‘Sound ID’ feature. If you use it in a bird rich environment hit the microphone icon and it lists every bird it hears and each goes yellow when it detects that particular bird calling. However It is not infallible, it can’t recognise a Marsh Warbler even if somebody plays a recording of one calling!
@@johnluk Funnily enough, I later played my recording of the mystery bird into the ChirpOmatic app, as recommended by the Guardian. It recognised it as a reed warbler and I then listened to some more recordings and decided that it's one of those birds, like the song thrush, that plays about with its song a fair bit, so I do in the end think it was a reed warbler. But your video is so, so good! I shall try the merlin app too. thanks. Nigel
Thank you Andrew, I agree with you, some people dismiss them as LBJs, little brown jobs, but they are among the most characterful and interesting species.
Hi John, wonderful video, thank you for sharing. I’m in Derbyshire at the moment and we’ve had some rarer sightings, Great Reed Warblers; Oriole Buntings, Greenfinches, Hawfinches, Marsh Harriers, a Bittern, Rosy Starlings etc.
Thank you so much, good to know you enjoyed it. Wow, that's spectacular! I originally came from Cheshire and have visited Derbyshire a few times. Great Reed Warblers and Oriole Buntings are proper MEGAS. Wish I lived closer!
@@johnluk they do exist apparently! Just not here in the UK haha! Rarest I’ve ever seen here in the UK are Waxwings, Bee-Eaters, Hawfinches and Hoopoes!
I’ve not seen s Hoopoe here and only twitched the Bee Eaters but I’ve done well with Waxwings on their 4-5 yearly irruptions and Hawfinches can be seen fairly readily in the Forest of Dean in the winter when they are ground feeding.
Thank you very much! Hope it's useful as the migrants return. I made it because an RSPB manager helped me to identify a Lesser Whitethroat call and that helped me to track and eventually see one so I know how helpful it can be to get to know them.
Brian I know what you mean! I’ve done this one recently focusing on that, I hope it helps. In the lockdown I couldn’t get fresh Blackkcap clips so they’re the same but there’s a lot more of the Garden Warbler czcams.com/video/3gug7c_g1Ck/video.html
Excellent vid, like a warbler library. Nailed the call and sight of the lesser whitethroat at last this year, fantastic wee bird. Would love to see a grasshopper warbler, been after one for years..
Thank you Jonathan, a warbler library is exactly what I was aiming for with both the sight and sound of each bird. So glad to hear it was helpful and I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Good luck with the Groppler!
Hello again John, thanks for info re buzzard on your Goldcliff vid. Back to warblers, had the Cetti's today at Adwick washlands, preening that marvelous tail. Flying, then singing on Alighting, really rufus colour. 10 warblers this year, well chuffed up to now..
Wow that’s amazing, I knew they were gradually moving northwards but great to get an update on their progress. I originally came from Sale which is almost a straight line west from where you saw it. As you know they’re very seldom seen so congratulations on your sighting, always a treat. The video I’m working on at the moment is another tricky blighter the Garden Warbler. I managed to get a fair bit of footage of one last year but all taken across a river in subdued light and of course the lockdown has put the kibosh on getting new stuff so far this year. I might just have to go with what I’ve got! 🥴
@@johnluk There's half a dozen or so at potteric too John. Heard them the last few years all year round so some are resident nowadays. Re the garden warbler, got one a couple 'o times just off the local golf course at Acre hill during lockdown. With traveling restrictions lifted I'm sure the King of warbler watching will get some more shots!..
That’s interesting news Jonathan, yes Cetti’s don’t migrate but will spread as territories become crowded. ‘King of Warblers’ love it! 😊Travel restrictions are still in place in Wales so still not able to get to my usual places which are closed. Anglers can travel to go fishing which is a bit annoying when we can’t travel for a similarly ‘safe’ activity.
Hopefully the video was some help! I suppose I could have given each bird a longer slot with subtitled ID tips but I thought it was already getting a bit too long for most people .
Thank you for your comment Paul. To answer your question it is hard to say, there is certainly a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, I have to believe that in the end good will triumph.
Thanks for this. I;m now pretty sure that the little bird I saw and heard on my walk today was one on the Sylvias, probably a Whitethroat. There seemed to be two of them calling back and forth, would that be usual?
Thanks for taking the time to comment and your subscription 👍 it’s great to hear you found the video useful. Yes one warbler sparks off another as they’re both claiming their territory however if you hear a Cetti’s Warbler it sounds like there are loads of them in a hedgerow but it’s just one racing up and down to give others the impression that there’s no room for them!
@@johnluk I thing I've got a Sedge Warbler today. The warbling was broken up with some angry buzzing sounds. I also spotted the little chap flying between trees in a sort of slow, dropping glide with his wings held out. I didn't think that a bird that small could do that. This was at the Viridor Woods near Wigan. When I was a kid this was all spoil heaps and stink from the coal mines but it has been thoroughly re-greened and is really bursting with birds.
Very useful video. Thank you!. It would help of the garden warbler didn't sound so much like a blackcap (not your fault!)))), but most of your recordings here are very good.
Thank you very much. The Blackcap and Garden Warbler are very similar birds, I think their line diverged only a few thousand years ago. Their calls are very similar but there’s a phrase that the Blackcap repeats whereas the Garden Warbler is much more random. That’s how I can tell them apart.
John, super video thank you. I wonder if you can tell me what bird it is that is chuntering away in the background of your first footage of a Whitethroat singing?
Canada Geese have got no room to talk, they are the noisiest birds I know. I'm sure they're heard on all of my recent videos recorded in Newport.🤣 At least the warblers only sing for a month or so!
Hi Marcus, thanks for your comment! Where did you hear the Bluethroat? That isn’t a bird I’m familiar with as it’s exceedingly rare in this part of the world!
@@johnluk I think you can hear one in the background of the (beginning of the) Cetti's recording. In the past decade, Bluethroats have been expanding enormously across (Western) Europe, and it would surprise me if that weren't the case in the UK as well.
Hallo anggi ahmad 😊I’m so happy that you told me where you live, it’s great to know that people are watching and enjoying my video from all the way across the world in Indonesia! Thank you!
@@johnluk my pleasure brother. I just try to fill my bird sound, then I found your videos. You have a great job with that video. Thank you so much. Here, I have "Murai Batu" kind of bird that good to copy other bird sounds.
T rất thích nghe tiếng chim hót ríu rít ! Tâm trạng sẽ vui hơn khi nghe chim hót vào buổi sáng và nhìn ngắm vẻ đẹp của chúng . Thật tuyệt vì bạn đã ghi lại được những âm thanh và hình ảnh đáng yệu này ! 😊
Cảm ơn Hàng Mai. Tôi nên gọi bạn là Hằng hay Mai? Ở Anh, chúng tôi đặt tên được đặt trước nhưng tùy chỉnh có thể khác ở quốc gia của bạn và tôi không muốn hiểu sai! Tôi rất vui vì bạn thích video này. Tôi đã mất một thời gian rất dài để tìm và ghi lại rất nhiều đặc điểm khác nhau. Đây chỉ là các Warblers, còn rất nhiều loài chim khác cố gắng ghi lại, đó sẽ là một công việc lâu dài nhưng tôi thích làm điều đó! 😊
What an achievement: not just the clear recordings but with the video clear enough to identify each bird as it sings. Thank you! That is a real treasure.
Thank you Bear! It’s wonderful to get such great feedback!
Igualmente , Dios bendiga tu vida
Entranced. What patience it must take to find these birds, never mind record them - amazing - thank you so much.
Thank you for your kind comment Josi, To be honest it was a labour of love visiting the various habitats and tracking down the birds. You're right in thinking it needed a lot of patience but I never thought about it because it was so enjoyable..The one I needed to complete the set was the Garden Warbler. I had a hot tip about a place where one nested last year and i was going to do a Garden Warbler special this spring. i waited through that wet, miserable winter looking forward to getting some great footage and then we were placed in lockdown. Never mind there's always next year!
Thankyou for your time & dedication to produce this video. I am thrilled to know I have Willow, Reed, Chiff Chaff & possibly more warblers in my garden with a Reed warbler nest also discovered ( & left). I have been trying to entice wildlife for 3yrs, what a reward!
Thank you so much. Wow what a collection of warblers to have in your garden, quite amazing!
So pleased. to have found this. Excellent work - as others have said both in video and sound. So useful just now as most of the birds I'm hearing are very well hidden in the foliage!
Thank you David. It’s a work I started after the manager of RSPB Newport was good enough to point out the sound of a Lesser Whitethroat. Almost immediately I heard and saw one so I have tried to help viewers in a similar way.
Thank you very much for this wonderful video.. at 64 just trying to learn the birds in my area in Pembrokeshire and really enjoying it...this is very helpful 😀👍
Thank you so much Andrew, glad it was helpful! I've been gathering more footage for a sequel in 4K but I was out of action for much of last year after a foot operation and some species are hard to track down, especially if you don't have full mobility! Pembrokeshire is a wonderful county for birding with many rarities reported over the years.
Reed warbler 0:25
Sedge warbler 0:55
Cetti's warbler 1:20
Chiffchaff 3:02
Willow warbler 3:28
Wood warbler 4:19
Blackcap 4:58
Dartford warbler 5:30
Garden warbler 6:06
Whitethroat 7:04
Lesser whitethroat 7:53
Indeed!
Thank you for such a lovely clear distinctive recording . I have heard Williw Warblers so often and not realised what they were. Thank you
Thank you Trudi, that’s great feedback and encouragement. Enjoy your birding!
Great video John. Wonderful photography. With the exception of the Dartford Warbler and the Savi I see all of these at my local gravel pit reserve. The Cetti stays all year long now.
Eddy W. Thanks so much Eddy, yes the Cetti’s is firmly established in the U.K. now. You’re very lucky seeing all those locally! I had to travel to Dorset for the Dartford Warbler, although one was seen fleetingly in my local reserve, Savi’s has visited us three times in ten years but still hasn’t bred here ( as far as we know) Have to travel up to higher ground for Wood Warblers!
Heard the first chiffchaffs today. I am so glad that I hit on this: the filming is as good as the sound recordings. I dare not think how long it took you to put them together. I will be using this a lot this summer, I hope. And I loved the bonus cuckoo. Many thanks.
Thank you Pen Man, good to know it's proving useful and I'm very grateful to you for taking the time to let me know!
This is a great resource, thank you John, I'll be coming back to it a lot! :-)
Thank you Chris! Great to know it’s appreciated.
Oh my gosh John, I am amazed by all of the warblers you were able to capture :) I loved hearing their songs & admiring their beauty. My hat really goes off to you with respect as I know it requires a great deal of time and patience to capture moments like these. This was so much fun to watch as I know the only way I will ever see these birds is through what you have captured here. I think my favorite is the grasshopper warbler, wow can that little one do his call for an eternity ♥ Big like & wishing you a wonderful week
I’m so happy that you loved this video Heather. You’re right about it taking a while - about five years between the first and latest videos and lots of time in between spent in woods, lanes and reed beds recording the birds. Of course it was really a labour of love and being out in nature is good for the soul! Hope you have a wonderful week too!
Superb quality audio. Delightful, well done.
Thank you Iain, I really appreciate your kind comment.
Even with binoculars I struggle to identify these birds. Putting a song to their name is the only way to positively identify them. Thanks.
Thanks a lot Marc, it's good to know you found it useful.
Thank you John - you've just helped me to identify the tiny but very loud bird I saw earlier in watermeadows near Oxford - Lesser Whitethroat. A new life tick for me!
Emma it’s great to hear that my video has been helpful. Thank you so much for your comment. 💐
Great resource John, a lot of patient work has been put into it. It'll come in handy for next spring to help refresh my memory. Thanks.
Thanks for your kind comment Andrew, I really hope it’s useful next year!
Brilliant photography and sound recording. These include some of my favourite birds. The common next to where I live had dozens of white throats breeding this summer, so I got to be very familiar with that bird. Total ball of energy..
Thanks for taking the time to let me know you liked it, much appreciated.
Superb. You can even hear a Sedge Warbler in the background of the whitethroat singing at 7:18
Thank you Arthur, really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment! 👍
What a great project. I live near RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserve and have heard these birds and after watching and listening to this, I'm pretty sure i've heard a Dartford Warbler around here too.
Thank you so much, great to know it’s still proving useful’
Thank you so much for this. I think I would still struggle when out and about to tell the difference, but have this video in my favourites to refer to if we are out and I hear something that sounds similar!
Thank you so much Carly! It’s great to hear that it’s proving useful and I really appreciate you letting me know.
Marvellous. Thank you.
Thank you, great to know it was appreciated.
Fantastic resource, thank you!
Thank you Lisa, great to know it’s helpful!
Perfect. Thank you.
Thank YOU Steve, great to know it’s appreciated.
Absolutely adore the warblers ❤ thanks for the video !
Thank you Nick, they should all be back in a couple of weeks, hope you get to see some on your patch.
Thanks so much from Cumbria. Now I can start to put names to the birds. Straight into 'favourites'.
Thanks Lewis, it's great to know that it's being used to I.D. birds which is what I hope for when I uploaded it. That's a brilliant reply to cheer me up in the lockdown, really appreciate you taking the time to comment. All the best!
An incredible film. Very precious and so valuable. Anybody curious about that bird song in the wood or in the field and garden need only keep this film as their reference point. Thank you so much John :)
Thank you so much Vincent, it’s really heartening to know that it’s still being watched and helping people with bird I.D.
I made it after the former manager of RSPB Newport Wetlands helped me by identifying the call of a Lesser Whitethroat and from there it was only a short time before I saw one. All the best with your birding. :)
Wow, just wow! I’ve always loved birds. This is fantastic and so helpful.
Thank you Shalom, great to know it is being appreciated! My inspiration to produce it came when the helpful manager of my local RSPB reserve identified the sound of a Lesser Whitethroat and it enabled me to locate and record the bird.
@@johnluk I was over at Blashford Lakes, Ringwood the other day and was curiously listening to a bird and asked a couple what it was and they said it was a Common Whitethroat. It didn’t show itself unfortunately. Incidentally all the hides are still shut there.
Thank you for this video! During the first lockdown, I was at the family home next to some woodland. Sat every morning in the garden with a cup of coffee surrounded by birdsong and found myself enchanted by a willow warbler. Get taken straight back to that time whenever I hear the song again. Glad to see my little one got a tasty treat!
Thank you so much Bekah, it’s lovely to get such encouraging feedback, hope you get to see many more in the future! 💖
Super. Many thanks.
Thank YOU Glen, it's very good of you to let me know you enjoyed it.
Thank you for making this helpful video.
I’ve searched high and low to try and find out which bird makes a particular sound in the woodland near us.
A wood warbler!
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Now I know. Thank you
Thank you Kathy, it’s great to know it’s proving useful. You are very lucky to have one so close, I have to drive a fair distance to see one.
@@johnluk Yes, we are very fortunate to live next to woodland. Which brings a good variety of birds to our garden.
I haven’t managed to see it yet but hopefully I will before long.
@@FaithAloneUK Good luck!
Wow! Grasshopper warbler!! Incredible...
Glad you liked it! We had a bird that returned to the same spot for three years but I haven’t seen any there for two years now 😢 We’ve has three Savi’s in 5 years though!
This is amazing, thank you. Your time and dedication is much appreciated
Thank YOU for taking the time to let me know it was appreciated. 🙏
What an absolutely fantastic treat! Thank you so much for putting this amazing collection together.
Thank you so muchJohn, it’s great to know my work is being appreciated. I was very lucky to see them all and some of the species have proved elusive since producing this collection.
A lot of interesting birds in this movie John.
Very good job with these footage. Very interesting. A pleasure to watch.
Best regards, Knut.
Thank you for your kind comments Knut, glad you enjoyed it. I had the idea to record every one of our warblers a few years ago but some of them proved a bit tricky to capture, the last one I needed to complete the set was the Garden Warbler and boy are they camera shy! I could only see one on the other side of a river and hidden by leaves but hey, that's wildlife for you, they're unpredictable!
@@johnluk
Very well done John.
Hidden by the leaves is just natural.
The Garden Warbler can be a problem indeed.
Best regards, Knut.
knut fugl thanks once again, have a great weekend!
Thanks from listening to these amazing birds I've finally found out what bird I've been hearing these past 4 years & that bird is the cetti's warbler
Thanks Rick. Love that it’s helped you with bird ID! I made it after a friend helped me to identify a Lesser Whitethroat a few years ago and it was so helpful I decided to start this project.
Tremendous work! Many thanks. I know how difficult it can be merely to see some of them - to film and record them is remarkable. Many thanks
Many thanks! It's wonderful to get such a positive comment from someone who really appreciates the difficulties from personal experience. Hope you have a great weekend!
Very good footage thanks
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Great capture at 04:11
Cheers Dan! 👍
Very useful, thanks. And lovely to watch.
Thank you so much, glad it was helpful!
Beautifull work. Thanks ❤
Thank you too! Good to know you enjoyed it!
Just came across your video John; it's delightful
Thank you David, it’s great to know it was appreciated!
Superb video and audio. You won't believe how helpful this is, to hear the songs matched with the actual bird, so very grateful thanks to you for your hard work in recording and collating all this. I have saved it for future reference. I heard a bird today near The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, that I can't identify - sadly not one of those in your video as far as I can tell. But if I hadn't been trying to discover that, I would not have found this excellent video!
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, It's great to know it was helpful. If you managed to record it there's a free bird app called Merlin that will attempt to do an identification by sound, it also does photo ID. Definitely worth having and would have helped you when you were out in the field. If there are a number of species it will list what it can hear. If you do find out please let me know what it was. There have been a number of Golden Orioles recently and one was heard on Brownsea Island when I was there in May.
Thanks John, really helpful,and alerted me to the fact I need a hearing test,as I couldn't hear the first Grasshopper warbler at all 🙂
Thanks lan, glad it was helpful! Join the club on the hearing problem, I'm reluctantly coming to the conclusion that I might need a hearing aid as I'm always having to ask my wife to repeat things!
Beauty warbler
Thank you Nurma!
Thank you very much! I struggle with identifying warblers, and this helped me more than ever. I have a little reed warbler that I call Dojo living right outside my window. I was only able to identify him thanks to this song. A beautiful bird, can't lie
Thank you for letting me know it helped, makes it worth all the effort.
Sounds of summer, Willow warbler is my favourite
Thank you Martin, W.W. Is certainly a sound that heralds the start of summer, usually a week to ten days after the Chiffchaff. Garden Warblers are the most challenging to film as they don’t arrive until the trees are well covered with leaves and like to sing from cover.
Amazing John thanks. Helped me ID a Blackcap today.
Thank you Stephen, great to know it helped!
Brilliant
Cheers Blair!
Quality video and very instructive. I shall be referring to this again and again! Thank you
cherrienob Great to hear! 👍
Superb. Thank you.
Thank you Julian!
Wow! Fantastic job! I enjoyed every minute of it! From all these species I have yet to see some :) Hope one day... Greetings. Like #23
Lovely comment, thanks once again Jakub, great to know it was appreciated. Greetings!
Thank you, I've had trouble distinguishing the warblers on the moors behind my house until now.
Thank you Eric, really glad to have been of help and hope it will be useful in the future.
This is very helpful, I will be saving it for future reference 💙
Thank you so much, great to hear you found it helpful.💖
Love this video! So brilliant!
Thank you so much!
fantastic work and quality. Just starting to put names to these songs which I always enjoy.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, great to know it’s being appreciated! 👍
Wonderful video. Really helpful for comparisons. I find it difficult to differentiate when there are several species singing at once, as they do at this time of year.
Thank you so much, great to know it was helpful!
I live in the Netherlands, but nevertheless a very helpful video. I am sure I've heard the lesser whitethroat, but have never seen him. I did see the whitethroat the day before yesterday for the first time😆.
The ChiffChaff is in a tree close to my house every day. The willow warbler I still have to find. I heard it yesterday, but couldn't find it in the tree. And in the park I saw the blackcap a few times. Hope to see the others some day as well. Thank you for this video😊.
Thank you so much. Great to know my video is proving useful. I know exactly what you mean about the Willow Warbler. I’ve also stood under a tree hearing but unable to see the bird. Good luck with seeing the other species!😊
@@johnluk Thank you and I wish you a lot of joy with this hobby and will continue watching your videos from now onwards 😊.
@@Ekster77 Thank you , I’m very grateful that you took the time to write. 😊
Grasshopper Warbler defiantly has some beef!
Thanks for watching, I know it's a long video but it's been an ambition of mine to try to capture all our warblers singing. Now I'm aiming to do it all again in 4K but that's likely to take a few years as for some reason the birds don't always turn up and sing when you want them to!
Excellent - a practical joy thank you!
Thank you Kevin, it’s great to get such positive feedback! 👍
This is brilliant! Thank you.
Thank YOU Fiona, really lovely feedback!
I recorded 2 minutes of birdsong here in Essex not knowing what it was - Now I know it's a Blackcap, thanks!
Thanks Andrew, glad to know it helped!
@@johnluk 👍👍👍
Simply love it ❤
Thank you Martin!
Useful vid, I have identified the bird I heard as a reed warbler. They all sound so angry!
Thank you fellow Art Teacher! Glad it proved useful. Something I’ve worked on since retiring.
Thank you. This is very good - but it would be even more helpful if you had left onscreen the name of the bird singing, rather than only briefly at the beginning of each.
Thank you, I didn't want to detract from the video by leaving the overlay on too long but if you are watching on a tv the pause button might help.
Fantastic video, thanks so much! We now know the bird we heard in the reeds at a London nature reserve wasn't any of the warblers! The quest continues to find out what it was...
Thank you Nigel, glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful. If you are in that situation in the future you could try the (free) Merlin App which has a ‘Sound ID’ feature. If you use it in a bird rich environment hit the microphone icon and it lists every bird it hears and each goes yellow when it detects that particular bird calling. However It is not infallible, it can’t recognise a Marsh Warbler even if somebody plays a recording of one calling!
@@johnluk Funnily enough, I later played my recording of the mystery bird into the ChirpOmatic app, as recommended by the Guardian. It recognised it as a reed warbler and I then listened to some more recordings and decided that it's one of those birds, like the song thrush, that plays about with its song a fair bit, so I do in the end think it was a reed warbler. But your video is so, so good! I shall try the merlin app too. thanks. Nigel
@@nigelpollitt5124 thank you so much Nigel, I am working on a new 4K version but there are some species I still need to record in 4K.
Some people say these birds are drab, I say they are absolutely amazing. 😊
Thank you Andrew, I agree with you, some people dismiss them as LBJs, little brown jobs, but they are among the most characterful and interesting species.
Hi John, wonderful video, thank you for sharing. I’m in Derbyshire at the moment and we’ve had some rarer sightings, Great Reed Warblers; Oriole Buntings, Greenfinches, Hawfinches, Marsh Harriers, a Bittern, Rosy Starlings etc.
Thank you so much, good to know you enjoyed it. Wow, that's spectacular! I originally came from Cheshire and have visited Derbyshire a few times. Great Reed Warblers and Oriole Buntings are proper MEGAS. Wish I lived closer!
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Haha thought I hadn't heard of that one, thought it must be a rare North American bird!
@@johnluk they do exist apparently! Just not here in the UK haha! Rarest I’ve ever seen here in the UK are Waxwings, Bee-Eaters, Hawfinches and Hoopoes!
I’ve not seen s Hoopoe here and only twitched the Bee Eaters but I’ve done well with Waxwings on their 4-5 yearly irruptions and Hawfinches can be seen fairly readily in the Forest of Dean in the winter when they are ground feeding.
So beautiful 👍
Thank you so much! 🙏
Love that Willow Warbler, food trump's singing.
Thanks Mark - it's my favourite clip too!
Nice one John👍
Thank you! 🙏
This is brilliant.
Thank you Simon!
Great job, excellent
Thank you very much! Hope it's useful as the migrants return. I made it because an RSPB manager helped me to identify a Lesser Whitethroat call and that helped me to track and eventually see one so I know how helpful it can be to get to know them.
Brilliant.
Brian Thanks a lot! 👍
@@johnluk You're welcome, John. It's a great compilation. I'm still struggling with Blackcap/Garden Warbler, though!!
Brian I know what you mean! I’ve done this one recently focusing on that, I hope it helps. In the lockdown I couldn’t get fresh Blackkcap clips so they’re the same but there’s a lot more of the Garden Warbler czcams.com/video/3gug7c_g1Ck/video.html
Excellent vid, like a warbler library. Nailed the call and sight of the lesser whitethroat at last this year, fantastic wee bird. Would love to see a grasshopper warbler, been after one for years..
Thank you Jonathan, a warbler library is exactly what I was aiming for with both the sight and sound of each bird. So glad to hear it was helpful and I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Good luck with the Groppler!
Hello again John, thanks for info re buzzard on your Goldcliff vid. Back to warblers, had the Cetti's today at Adwick washlands, preening that marvelous tail. Flying, then singing on Alighting, really rufus colour. 10 warblers this year, well chuffed up to now..
Wow that’s amazing, I knew they were gradually moving northwards but great to get an update on their progress. I originally came from Sale which is almost a straight line west from where you saw it. As you know they’re very seldom seen so congratulations on your sighting, always a treat. The video I’m working on at the moment is another tricky blighter the Garden Warbler. I managed to get a fair bit of footage of one last year but all taken across a river in subdued light and of course the lockdown has put the kibosh on getting new stuff so far this year. I might just have to go with what I’ve got! 🥴
@@johnluk There's half a dozen or so at potteric too John. Heard them the last few years all year round so some are resident nowadays. Re the garden warbler, got one a couple 'o times just off the local golf course at Acre hill during lockdown. With traveling restrictions lifted I'm sure the King of warbler watching will get some more shots!..
That’s interesting news Jonathan, yes Cetti’s don’t migrate but will spread as territories become crowded. ‘King of Warblers’ love it! 😊Travel restrictions are still in place in Wales so still not able to get to my usual places which are closed. Anglers can travel to go fishing which is a bit annoying when we can’t travel for a similarly ‘safe’ activity.
Oh, that's why it's called a Grasshopper Warbler!
Glad to know it helped!
I love warblers and their 'scratchy' songs, i cant really tell each bird apart tho.
Hopefully the video was some help! I suppose I could have given each bird a longer slot with subtitled ID tips but I thought it was already getting a bit too long for most people .
@@johnluk it was useful thanks so much :))
Thank you for angels shown in this form. Will they be there in another 100 years?
Thank you for your comment Paul. To answer your question it is hard to say, there is certainly a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, I have to believe that in the end good will triumph.
Thanks for this. I;m now pretty sure that the little bird I saw and heard on my walk today was one on the Sylvias, probably a Whitethroat. There seemed to be two of them calling back and forth, would that be usual?
Thanks for taking the time to comment and your subscription 👍 it’s great to hear you found the video useful. Yes one warbler sparks off another as they’re both claiming their territory however if you hear a Cetti’s Warbler it sounds like there are loads of them in a hedgerow but it’s just one racing up and down to give others the impression that there’s no room for them!
@@johnluk I thing I've got a Sedge Warbler today. The warbling was broken up with some angry buzzing sounds. I also spotted the little chap flying between trees in a sort of slow, dropping glide with his wings held out. I didn't think that a bird that small could do that. This was at the Viridor Woods near Wigan. When I was a kid this was all spoil heaps and stink from the coal mines but it has been thoroughly re-greened and is really bursting with birds.
@@tigerboy1966 definitely a Sedge Warbler then, they're well known for that aerial display. Well done!👏
Very useful video. Thank you!. It would help of the garden warbler didn't sound so much like a blackcap (not your fault!)))), but most of your recordings here are very good.
Thank you very much. The Blackcap and Garden Warbler are very similar birds, I think their line diverged only a few thousand years ago. Their calls are very similar but there’s a phrase that the Blackcap repeats whereas the Garden Warbler is much more random. That’s how I can tell them apart.
@@johnluk yes! That’s helpful.
John, super video thank you. I wonder if you can tell me what bird it is that is chuntering away in the background of your first footage of a Whitethroat singing?
Hi George, thank you for your kind comment, that's a Reed Warbler!
@@johnluk Thanks so much. Now I know what I'm looking for!
Nice
Thanks!
awesome ... iam just missing the subtitles:)
Thank you so much, why are you missing the subtitles?
Sitting here fishing and the warblers are in full song.. wondering how the nesting Canadian goose put up with them as neighbours 🤔
Canada Geese have got no room to talk, they are the noisiest birds I know. I'm sure they're heard on all of my recent videos recorded in Newport.🤣 At least the warblers only sing for a month or so!
@@johnluk I think I have to agree..😄 they are also very insistent on earing my bait when I'm by the lake..😊
@@deedee3719 🤣🤣🤣
1:20 A nice Bluethroat in the background choir ...
Hi Marcus, thanks for your comment! Where did you hear the Bluethroat? That isn’t a bird I’m familiar with as it’s exceedingly rare in this part of the world!
@@johnluk I think you can hear one in the background of the (beginning of the) Cetti's recording. In the past decade, Bluethroats have been expanding enormously across (Western) Europe, and it would surprise me if that weren't the case in the UK as well.
@@johnluk Excellent videos by the way!
Thanks Marcus, I’ll listen out for it!
Thank you, it’s great to get such positive feedback!
Hallo. I am from Indonesia. The most I love is Dartford warbler..
Hallo anggi ahmad 😊I’m so happy that you told me where you live, it’s great to know that people are watching and enjoying my video from all the way across the world in Indonesia! Thank you!
@@johnluk my pleasure brother. I just try to fill my bird sound, then I found your videos. You have a great job with that video. Thank you so much. Here, I have "Murai Batu" kind of bird that good to copy other bird sounds.
Thank you my friend, I have seen a photo of the Murai Batu, it looks a little like our Magpie. Very interesting to know it can mimic other birds.
What's the bird in the background of the wood warbler?
That's a very good question Paula, I think it's a Nuthatch but not 100% sure.
Grasshopper Warbler rules the reeds
I agree! I’d like to replace all my HD footage with 4K but haven’t seen one so clearly for the last three years.
T rất thích nghe tiếng chim hót ríu rít ! Tâm trạng sẽ vui hơn khi nghe chim hót vào buổi sáng và nhìn ngắm vẻ đẹp của chúng . Thật tuyệt vì bạn đã ghi lại được những âm thanh và hình ảnh đáng yệu này ! 😊
Cảm ơn Hàng Mai. Tôi nên gọi bạn là Hằng hay Mai? Ở Anh, chúng tôi đặt tên được đặt trước nhưng tùy chỉnh có thể khác ở quốc gia của bạn và tôi không muốn hiểu sai!
Tôi rất vui vì bạn thích video này. Tôi đã mất một thời gian rất dài để tìm và ghi lại rất nhiều đặc điểm khác nhau. Đây chỉ là các Warblers, còn rất nhiều loài chim khác cố gắng ghi lại, đó sẽ là một công việc lâu dài nhưng tôi thích làm điều đó! 😊
@@johnluk Bạn gọi Hằng hay Mai , hay Mai Hằng cũng đươc . 😊
Grt
Thanks Bird watchers Channel, much appreciated!
Nice video I liked the part when the warbler caught the fly
Thanks for taking the time to comment Ellis! That’s my favourite bit too!
Oh cool
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Благодаря ти, Аза, дано ти е хубава неделя! 😊
Burung ini berasal dari negara mana?
Terima kasih telah menonton. Mereka semua adalah burung yang terlihat di Inggris Raya.
Dancing Mini Bird! Willow Warbler! Phylloscopus trochilus!
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2:39 That's just obnoxious behaviour.
Not sure what you’re referring to there Paul! A Savi’s Warbler singing seems to be pretty innocuous to me!
El q va ser malo es desde sus comienzos
Lo siento si eso significa que no te gusta el video!
Lo siento No se q pasó mi comentario fue para un bb de pájaro q saca a sus hermanos del nido.Este vídeo es hermoso❤
@@user-yx4tf8cw5y Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de explicar y por tu lindo comentario. Que tengas un hermoso fin de semana.💖