The nightingale

Yesterday there was a nightingale singing in the garden. They migrate still late in the season so most probably it was a migrant. The farmland that surround us is not a good biotope for nightingales. They prefer a bushy swamp.

I like the song of nightingales. The sound is so strong. Of course it should have been better to hear them at night, when the moon is shining and the silence is empty. Then the nightingale takes it al. It let the air vibrate and it blows you away. And in one way or another the strangeness of the song makes you happy.
During the day the song is less powerful although it's still showing the other birds and noises that you better be silent when this nightingale sings.

I wanted to post it on https://www.artportalen.se. There all of the observations from Sweden are collected. When I filled it in they said there were only 8 observations of this species. Waow. And I had one in the garden. They asked me to have a proof of it. This was an ultimate test for my new smartphone. So I filmed the garden, asked Timon (the one from the films) about a nice program and took of the noises. But then I could not find how to upload the sound file. So I published without sound. 

But I want you to hear the little brown bird on the background of this video. Also here I could not find out to publish only the sound. 

Meanwhile you can see that the colours of the spring flowers is taken over by the lush green.

When I looked back to the observation of the day, I saw there was something as a thrush nightingale.  I knew they existed but never thought to see or hear one. It turns out here there are no nightingales and quite some thrush nightingales here. And yes the song was a little bit different. So at the end it turned out to be this new species for me. So I quickly changed it. And I know for sure this is not the first time I have heard it.