A call from the wild
ON AUGUST 21, as I was walking down Nebo Road, on the outskirts of Llanrwst in Wales, I heard a young bullfinch calling to be fed. The calls came from within a dense hedge on the roadside. As I crept closer, the calls continued. They may have come from one or more than one chick. The call belonged to a youngster or youngsters that had fledged.
As I got gradually closer, I heard the alarm call from one of the parents that was also somewhere in the hedge. Silence followed and
