Cuckoo

The Cuckoo has a simple, easily recognised song, but its singing season is brief, and Cuckoos are not the common birds they once were.

Blackcap

Blackcaps are one of our most accomplished and beautiful singing warblers, and present in wooded corners all around the estate.

Reed Warbler

Reed Warblers often sing well into the evening, pumping out their jagged rhythms from any reed-fringed ditch or pond-side.

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatchers are a rapidly declining summer visitor with a very subtle song that’s very helpful in locating them.

Green Woodpecker

The ‘yaffle’ divides its time between hoovering up ants and making its distinctive laughing call around the parkland.

Other birds to listen out for around Herstmonceux Castle in May

• Tawny Owl

• Robin

• Blackbird

• Goldfinch

• Chaffinch

• Treecreeper

• Dunnock

• Great Spotted Woodpecker

• Skylark

• Blue Tit

• Great Tit

• Jay

• Carrion Crow

• Rook

• Jackdaw

• Woodpigeon

• Stock Dove

• Mistle Thrush

• Goldcrest

• Firecrest

• Kestrel

• Swallow

• House Martin