Downgrading of Radipole Lake and Lodmoor RSPB reserves. The deputy leader of Weymouth Council has taken on board all the info I published before. She has asked me to let everyone I know to let her know their views. Her email address is: cllrkate.wheller@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

Esteemed birder friends, Can anyone pls help me ID the culprits in these two recordings I made earlier today in my garden in Bruton, Somerset? In this 1st one, there is a very chirrupy yet low frequency warbling happening at 0:05 and 0:17 seconds. (1/2)

And in this 2nd one, the calls of a Pied wagtail are interrupted by an aggressive, staccato outburst from what I think is a different species, again out of view behind a large fence....
Any help would be warmly appreciated.

Merlin app had picked up a Cetti's warbler a few moments before, but I felt this was a misindentification of a noisy Pied wagtail in the area. This song doesn't sound like any Cetti's warbler I have ever heard, and the habitat was all wrong. The ducks you can hear are pets in the nextdoor garden!

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White-tailed Eagle (G486) and a Greylag Goose
Wareham Channel, Dorset
Taken during today's Spring Safari Cruise
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