Treecreeper nest and Lesser Whitethroat

 

Thanks to Louise Ward for this portrait of a nest-building Treecreeper on a MWT reserve. I am not being more specific to minimize disturbance! Treecreepers usually nest in a crevice of rough bark in a mature tree trunk, but occasionally they will use a man-made structure such as a shed.  

In other news, I heard my first Lesser Whitethroat this morning, on their regular patch close to my home in Middletown. Their migration is different from our other warblers, since they winter in the Middle East through to India. So they fly north-west to us, rather than due north from North Africa and Spain, as the others do.