Sunday – I enjoyed a long walk from Southey Woods past Upton Church almost to the Ailsworth Road, then back into Ailsworth Heath and The Hanglands along the main North-South track. - sorry to Chris Gardiner that at around midday, it was just a little later than the Natural England Dawn Chorus walk…...
The Bluebells and Cowslips are magnificent, the Wood Anemones have peaked, and the Wild Garlic is in flower (but has gone over for foraging) and I did not spot any St George’s mushrooms.
However in this zany year for weather, I heard a remarkable set of birdsong around the trackway from the Ranger’s Yard through to the east of North Heath. Around midday and within a few minutes I heard
- a Tawny Owl in the pine plantation,
- a cuckoo (my first of the year) and a chiffchaff - both in the coppice.
- then a Nightingale in the scrubland on the west of North Heath. It churred and stuttered song phrases – but for some minutes rather than a full-on song.
There were other chiffchaffs about and an earlier Nightingale in the scrub north of the Middle Heath.
Maybe it is not just humans who are confused by the weather!
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