High quality recordings of woodland birds singing on spring mornings in Northamptonshire. There’s no narrative, and no traffic noise. Just the clear beautiful sounds of the English countryside.
You can listen to full length tracks and download the album at https://nickpenny.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-chorus-natural-recordings-of-woodland-birdsong
- 1 (27.55) 5.00 am, 20 April. Glapthorn Cow Pasture. Blackbirds and thrushes, with a wren close by. In the middle of the wood among blackthorn thickets, looking towards an open area of ash trees.
- 2 (5.15) 4.30 am, 11 May. Glapthorn Cow Pasture. Blackbird and blackcap in the foreground, with a distant cuckoo. Just inside the wood, in a thicket with mature oaks behind.
- 3 (7.34) 5.20 am, 25 May. Southwick. Chorus of woodpigeons, blackbirds and thrushes. On the footpath from Southwick to Woodnewton, among mixed conifers and deciduous trees.
- 4 (24.08) 4.50 am, 1 June. Southwick. Nightingale close by, cuckoo early on, chiffchaff overhead. In a forest clearing with thinned-out oaks, thorn scrub and dog roses.
