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Garden Warbler, Low Barns
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Northumbria and Durham
Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) on an Alder tree at Low Barns Nature Reserve, County Durham.
06 May 2024
Garden Warbler, Low Barns
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Northumbria and Durham
Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) on an Alder tree at Low Barns Nature Reserve, County Durham.
06 May 2024
Garden Warbler, Low Barns
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Northumbria and Durham
Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin) on an Alder tree at Low Barns Nature Reserve, County Durham.
06 May 2024
Male Blackcap in a garden, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) in a garden in Kelvindale, Glasgow, a record shot taken by David Palmar on a dull day through a window. The bird was coming to fat balls and sunflower seed. Warblers normally migrate south to Africa, but some Blackcaps overwinter here, or may have migrated here south-west from Scandinavia, as the winter weather is milder.
24 January 2022
Whitethroat, Great Cumbrae
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Whitethroat (Sylvia communis), a summer visiting and breeding warbler on Great Cumbrae.
06 June 2009
Sardinian Warbler
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St Abb's
A male Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) at the Mire Loch, St Abb's. Although common in the Mediterranean, these appear only rarely in Scotland, blown in by south-easterly winds.
19 October 2013
Male Blackcap, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), a warbler which mostly migrates to Africa for the winter, but a few stay in the UK, or migrate to the UK from Scandinavia for the winter. Taken in a Glasgow garden in January by David Palmar. Despite being insectivorous in the summer, they are attracted to the garden in winter by sunflower seed and fat balls with seeds embedded in them.
30 January 2022
Goldcrest, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
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Edinburgh
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, taken by Claudia Caporusso. The Goldcrest is one of Britain's smallest birds, together with its rarer relative, the Firecrest.
Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), a summer visiting warbler, Ken-Dee Marshes RSPB Reserve. This is a male, as can be seen by its black cap. The female has a brown cap.
