Tag: birdsong

25 April 2019

Every year, I try to visit at least one beechwood at about this time, when the leaves are like fluttering scraps of lime green taffeta. This year I could only manage a short repeat visit to Lewesdon Hill, and this time, I took my infrared converted camera and…

26 March 2019

A few days of warm sunny weather, and spring is definitely here. Apart from the sunshine, the most joyous aspect is the birdsong. Skylarks have just started singing high over the fields, their wings flickering light and dark against the sky as they hover, borne aloft on a…

29 May 2018

Every time I go down to the field to feed the ponies, I enjoy the birdsong in the woods. This morning, a cock blackbird sang on a low branch rather than his usual treetop, and I listened entranced. Further away in the woods, I could hear another bird…