LBJ

I am fairly confident that this little brown job is actually a Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus).
It was nesting in a narrow strip between the sea and a railway line where the Fife Coastal Path passes through so it has to live with frequent disturbance. There are no tall trees - maybe a few stunted sycamores and hawthorn.  Ground cover varies from bare rocks, grasses, willowherb and nettles and brambles with a variety of wildflowers scattered throughout.


This warbler was only a hundred yards or so from where I photographed yesterday's leucistic crows and they were still in the same area today. Once again, a parent brought in a small bird to feed to the fledgelings and I was able to see that it was a young seagull (lesser black-backed or herring gull as both nest locally). See today's 'extra' if you are not too squeamish.