For the past three weeks or so or maybe even longer, we have awoken to a melodious trilling, warbling and tweeting which has gone on for simply hours at a time.
It was the same last Spring & early Summer but we couldn't see who was making the sounds and when the hotter weather arrived and the birdsong ceased, we simply forgot about trying to identify the owner of this lovely song.
His favourite perch this year is at the top of the Jujube trees which, fortunately, are quite late coming into leaf and yesterday morning, 'himself' brought out the binoculars in an attempt to get a better look.
I managed to get a very blurred photo of the bird's back using the zoom on the mobile phone camera which seemed to offer no hope of a positive identification at the time and after searching through the European book of Birds, which was worse than useless, decided to try an internet search.
Having hardly any bird knowledge, well I do know and love the Blackbird and his song and of course there are pigeons and Sparrows, it seemed hopeless and extremely frustrating especially after finding a Bird identification page but.... there finally came that 'Eureka' moment.......
It's a Nightingale!
How marvelously wonderful and wonderfully amazing.
A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square; well he may have done but now he is singing in Cortijo Azahar Garden.............
along with the Sardinian Warblers, the Black birds, the Doves from one of our Spanish neighbours, the Peacocks up on the hill, the Cockerel and Hens from the neighbour below us, the Robins and Sparrows, the occasional Hoopoe who doesn't nest in our garden, a Scops Owl at night, the Swallows back in the Potting Shed (too busy to sing) and more.....
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| The Nightingale.... ...not sitting on a JuJube tree |
