The video ends with four pictures just outside the wood, including one rainbow picture at St Nicolas School.
If people can help identify bird sounds at specific timings in the video I will try to add some birdsong identification tags so we can all learn more bird songs.
Lovely film; thank you for that.
I understood that, birds adjust their volume to sing above the ambient noise. Now it is quieter we can hear them very loudly so, presumably they are still singing at their pre-plague volume ?
Will they adjust to the quieter surrounding and quieten down and, post-plague, will they then re-adjust back to being loud again ?
What a privilege to live in lovely Abingdon at this time of the year and have these wonderful places within exercise distance of our homes.
Boxhill Wood & the Stert…my playground as a child living in Kingston Close.
They apparently already are singing measurably quieter – they just appear louder to our ears because of the reduction in background noise and our increased attention to them.
Good piece on science of birdsong volume on this week’s ‘more or less’ on radio 4 which explains this – available on bbc sounds
Had my usual walk round the meadow this morning…and saw not only what I am pretty sure was a skylark rearing up from its ground nest in the field, but also a water vole scurrying along the river with a mouthful of reeds. Not seen one of those for years!
The skylarks are out in profusion – or in exaltation. Wonderful, I was accompanied for about half a mile by an Orange Tip fluttering by.
A cloud with a sterling silver lining.
Funnily enough my daughter sent me a recording of the birds in Boxhill Wood hers was early morning beautiful