August 9th

orchestra soundcheck

cockerel wren dove and blackbird

a dawn performance

Up early as feel over hot, listened to the world, it’s a bit late in the year for a proper dawn chorus, most birds have nested, their young have fledged, but I heard a distant cockerel, an agitated wren chirping, doves cooing and a blackbird’s warning call. If you listen carefully to the silence, it’s deafening.

April 15th

The frost melts to dew

timid birds find their voices

in the burning dawn

 

We went for a dawn walk today, we saw the sun rise and heard the birds sing. A Willow Warbler warbled in a willow (really). We didn’t see any otters. The river flit is on the edge of their travelling range. Would be lovely to see one.

Pic I took of Flitton Church and the sun rising behind it.