How beautiful, I think most people find bird song relaxing. I can't get off to sleep easily without the dawn chorus which luckily starts at midnight in my urban setting. Thank you so much for sharing, I am grandma age now and miss the bird song abundance of my childhood some 50 years ago.
Oh my word! What an incredible sound! I am not aware of these birds at all. Fascinating! I try to recognise bird calls where I live but there are so many!!! Most are bearable apart from the Green Parrot which is incredibly loud and the monthly meeting of crows and magpies in the mating season, which I say they are coming to my dating club in the trees.
I grew up in Larne Co. Antrim hearing Corncrakes all through the summer nights up until the late 1970's or early 1980's and would fall asleep to their calls. The nearest field was around a hundred yards away so they were quite loud. Hay-making (with the meadow grasses left standing until August) stopped and the grass was cut much earlier for silage and this meant the Corncrakes lost their nests and their chicks. I would sometimes go for a rural bicycle ride at night and most of the fields would have a nest or two so that the crek crek sound followed me along the dark country roads. They never kept me awake, quite the opposite in fact, and I miss them now they are gone.
Hi Angus, I moved to Point from Southampton 19 years ago. I saw and heard corncrakes for several years in Broker but now nothing. Do you know what causes them to move or leave an area?
What amazing, charismatic little birds. I've heard them on Mull and Skye and had the incredible good fortune to see one at Timsgearraidh on Lewis - just a glimpse before it retreated into the nettles. You can be just a few feet away from one and they remain invisible in the reeds and irises.
Thank you for sharing this, we so much need to care for nature far better than we are currently.
How beautiful, I think most people find bird song relaxing. I can't get off to sleep easily without the dawn chorus which luckily starts at midnight in my urban setting.
Thank you so much for sharing, I am grandma age now and miss the bird song abundance of my childhood some 50 years ago.
Oh my word! What an incredible sound! I am not aware of these birds at all. Fascinating! I try to recognise bird calls where I live but there are so many!!! Most are bearable apart from the Green Parrot which is incredibly loud and the monthly meeting of crows and magpies in the mating season, which I say they are coming to my dating club in the trees.
What a super evening with those noctillucent clouds , good to hear them. Well done 😻🏴
Thanks for the video , you are so privileged to hear such a rare bird😀
I grew up in Larne Co. Antrim hearing Corncrakes all through the summer nights up until the late 1970's or early 1980's and would fall asleep to their calls. The nearest field was around a hundred yards away so they were quite loud. Hay-making (with the meadow grasses left standing until August) stopped and the grass was cut much earlier for silage and this meant the Corncrakes lost their nests and their chicks. I would sometimes go for a rural bicycle ride at night and most of the fields would have a nest or two so that the crek crek sound followed me along the dark country roads. They never kept me awake, quite the opposite in fact, and I miss them now they are gone.
lovely. A rare opportunity I won't get to hear so thanks for sharing.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for sharing your memories too 💚
Fantastic film thankyou👏
Great video. Love hearing the snipe in the background as well
A corncrake sandwich! Ha ha! Love it.
Hi Angus, I moved to Point from Southampton 19 years ago. I saw and heard corncrakes for several years in Broker but now nothing. Do you know what causes them to move or leave an area?
What amazing, charismatic little birds. I've heard them on Mull and Skye and had the incredible good fortune to see one at Timsgearraidh on Lewis - just a glimpse before it retreated into the nettles. You can be just a few feet away from one and they remain invisible in the reeds and irises.
I say, the barn seemed faint.