Nightingale

A plain brown bird with a pale eyering and rusty-brown tail, best known for its rich, powerful song which can keep people awake when given at night. In areas of overlap, compare with extremely similar Thrush Nightingale; note present species’ unmarked pale underparts, often with a variable buffy wash, as well as its warmer-toned back and brighter rufous tail. Song is extremely variable, and can include whistles, trills, rattles, and warbled phrases; elements often repeated. Calls include a…

Inscription: Printed text along lower edge of card: Nightingale.Printed text on verso of card: This card is one of a/ set of FIFTY "ZOO"/ cards, as follows:[list of birds included in set]/ One of the above cards is wrap-/ped with every ZOO caramel

A plain brown bird with a pale eyering and rusty-brown tail, best known for its rich, powerful song which can keep people awake when given at night. In areas of overlap, compare with extremely similar Thrush Nightingale; note present species’ unmarked pale underparts, often with a variable buffy wash, as well as its warmer-toned back and brighter rufous tail. Song is extremely variable, and can include whistles, trills, rattles, and warbled phrases; elements often repeated. Calls include a…

It’s 200 years since Keats penned ‘Ode to a Nightningale’, but this otherwise drab bird’s rich, sorrowful song is worth listening out for says John Lewis-Stempel.

Nightingale, Paxton Pits NR, 26th April 2010 © Garth Peacock A total of 11 singing males seen or heard today just from the car park to Kingfisher hide.

Don’t count your failure.Keep trying until you can fly. © July 2019 Credit for rightful owner.From Pinterest