Enquiring Ear

Field recording and found sounds

Month: April 2021

  • Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff counterpoint

    I love the sound of willow warblers, for a long time I had only heard them in Scotland, where they aren’t so fussy about willow. When I lived in Suffolk I heard them very rarely.

    Somerset has plenty of willow on the Levels, and it has a good number of Willow Warblers with their lovely liquid song. Here one seems to be duking it out for territory with a Chaffinch