The Red-breasted Flycatcher was far from obliging - during its seemingly brief visit to the Obs garden it was seen by just one observer and heard by two others - but at times it was quite vocal as it lurked deep inside the cover of the front garden. This little recording begins with a series of the characteristic Wren-like rattles before the bird swaps to the completely different squeaky 'lost-chick' call:
On a day when the UK bird observatory network was knee-deep in Greenish Warblers we were rather relishing the prospect of getting to the evening and having to find a way of talking up our largest flock of Mute Swans in recent memory © Martin Cade: