The end of March sees one of Spring's most classic migrant passerines start to arrive back to our shores, with one of britain's most well known, cliche 'british summertime' songs, even if many general public don't even know what it is!... The incredible Willow Warbler!

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The willow warbler is a common, though declining, summer visitor to scrubland, wetlands, parkland, woodlands and uplands. In appearance it's most close to it's very close cousin, the Chiffchaff, in fact sometimes almost unidentifiable from afar between the two, until you hear the song, which is incredibly different, and as mentioned above, the sound of summer.

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This lovely olive-yellow warbler arrives back in march and leaves at the end of august.

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In Somerset the wetlands of the Levels, the woodlands of the Mendip hills and the grasslands of the Polden hills are fantastic places to see this widespread but elusive species.

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Book a tour this spring and let me show you them in their ideal habitats, and their beautiful song, not to mention how to ID them from Chiffchaffs.