Dear Freddie,
ISN’T THE dawn chorus glorious at the moment? Robins, wrens, finches, blackbirds, thrushes and tits, all greeting a new day with their exuberant birdsong as they call in a mate or defend their breeding territories. Golden plover, curlew, snipe, skylarks, meadow pipits, oystercatchers, dotterel and dunlin flock to our moorlands, breaking the long silence of winter with their melody. As the temperature rises, insect life explodes, drawing the summer migrants: blackcaps, whitethroats, wheatears and cuckoos are the heralds of warm
