Spent a couple of minutes listening to the increase in bird song this morning. Robins, as usual were predominant, with at least 6 singing in the dark. A lone song thrush sang from around the chapel allotments whilst a startled blackbird flew into the hedge by the chapel. A fox called from the woods opposite the pub and the jackdaws were marauding around at first light. A pheasant called from the field adjacent to Ford Field.
As the daylight increases in the mornings I will be out earlier, listening and noting the increase in bird species developing a territory. By the end of February many birds will have established a territory, or in cases like wren and dunnock that can have several females on the nest at the same time, several territories. By mid April the dawn chorus will be at its peak and then is the time for an early dawn walk. This can establish exactly which birds are in the area without actually observing them.
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