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Posted on May 10, 2019

“Birds of the Air”, Sharron Krauss

This haunting song reminds me of the eerie folk of the seventies – especially, for some reason, Magnet’s ‘Willow’s Song” from The Wicker Man (if you have seen the movie…

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Posted on April 19, 2019April 15, 2019

“Curlew Call”, Peter Bagshaw

The call of the curlew is its best known feature – indeed, the potential disappearance of this sound from the soundscape of the countryside is one of the most potent…

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Posted on August 30, 2016

Bird feeding notes, end of August

In recent weeks bird activity around feeders has definitively picked up. Like the return to school, this is a  harbinger of autumn and behind that, winter. Certainly feeding birds in a deliberate,…

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