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When I was on my way back from hides after shooting the lesser spotted eagle I was driving slowly down a country road among the meadows and pastures. Here and there along the road there was water in depression, and the whole area was overgrown with thick bushes. In such a place I could hear a beautiful birdsong. I knew that in the eastern Poland a thrush nightingale can be found and a common nightingale - in the western . In Greater Poland it is easy to take photos of the common nightingale. As I read the thrush nightingale is much more skittish. The photo session was rather strange. First I made sound recording and then when I played it back I could see the bird and take the photos. The sun was setting and the bird was still very skittish. Just a few pictures were taken, images under the cover of twigs, and the light was getting worse and worse. I set out in the morning and strained my ears to find out whether in the area of a few hundred meters this little, gray, inconspicuous soloist could be heard, to take better pictures. Unfortunately, nothing happened. So, few pictures initiates a new gallery on my website, but the sound recording made from a few meters in a quiet area probably expresses the most what is meant by "Nightingale" voice. I encourage you to listen to my recordings of the sound of the thrush nightingale, whose photos can be seen in the initial gallery of this species. In terms of size and behavior it does not differ from the common nightingale. The wingspan is about 25 centimeters, weight did not exceed 35 grams, so it is slightly heavier than the other one. Physically gray, inconspicuous bird, but its concert is worth listening to, because it's not a trivial singer among birds.
Last minute news 05/2016
A change from a documentary gallery to a much better quality gallery is always cheering. This time it was not a chance encounter. Not far from Warsaw, on the edge of fields and meadows there were little bushy forest fragments. In the place where I was photographing there were a few thrush nightingales. It does not mean that it was easy to take the pictures presented here. It took several hours of waiting in the sunrise for a few occasions when a nightingale would come out of the bushes. Its trill was, one can say, unremitting. Photos of a nightingale with a closed beak are a rarity. Such a change in the gallery has to be noted in the news section.
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