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notes, which resemble the sounds made by a cricket, a 

 grasshopper, or the line running off a fisherman's reel. 

 Certainly few would believe that they come from a bird's 

 throat. Normally it only sings for a couple of months 



Grasshopper Warbler 



after its arrival in mid- April, yet it does not leave the 

 country till September, though, being local and irregular 

 in appearance, it may easily be overlooked. Moreover 

 it is a skulking species, which loves sedgy or rushy flats 

 or coarse grass on banks and at hedge-bottoms, while 



