Garden Warbler

The Garden Warbler is a very plain warbler with no distinguishing features (a feature in itself). It spends a lot of its time in the cover of trees and bushes and can be more difficult to see than its relative, the Blackcap.
The Garden Warbler can be found in England, Wales and southern Scotland arriving in late April and May and leaving in mid-July. Migrants can be seen through August and September when Continental birds can be seen along the east and south coasts.
Despite its name, the Garden Warbler is not really a garden bird except in mature gardens next to woods. Instead, they prefer deciduous and mixed woodland, woodland edges with glades, rides and other open areas and occasionally farmland hedgerows.
Date: 7th May 2011
Location: Ynys-hir RSPB reserve, Ceredigion
The Garden Warbler can be found in England, Wales and southern Scotland arriving in late April and May and leaving in mid-July. Migrants can be seen through August and September when Continental birds can be seen along the east and south coasts.
Despite its name, the Garden Warbler is not really a garden bird except in mature gardens next to woods. Instead, they prefer deciduous and mixed woodland, woodland edges with glades, rides and other open areas and occasionally farmland hedgerows.
Date: 7th May 2011
Location: Ynys-hir RSPB reserve, Ceredigion
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