Late November, and dusk falls on Sheffield's largest corvid roost. Thousands of Jackdaws and hundreds of Rooks return to the woods for the night.

Corvids coming in to roost, Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield

The making tide, Robin Hood's Bay, early summer. Small waves break over the ridges of rock (called dumps locally), whilst gulls, terns and other birds are pushed onshore.

Dab Dumps

Kingsland Bridge in Shrewsbury, at last light on a week night in early May. Dead calm on the river, and the valley is full of birdsong and a town winding down.

Kingsland Bridge, Shrewsbury

A quiet spring evening below Trwyn Llanbedrog. Small waves break on the sand and fulmars cackle on the cliff behind.

In 2016 this recording was voted the UK's favourite coastal sound: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/sounds-of-our-shores

Trwyn Llanbedrog

Recorded from my bedroom window at 5am in late June, layers of birdsong mingle with strengthening rainfall, distant sheep and a snoring sleeper.

Damp dawn chorus, Hangingwater

Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms at sunrise in late March, with the dawn chorus in the pinewoods and photographers by the lake

Loch Morlich dawn

Wind and Cuckoo, Stanage Causeway

Henllwyn is the sheltered bay on the east coast of Bardsey island/ Ynys Enlli. Recorded at low tide in late summer.

Henllwyn

The sound of the Singing Ringing Tree above Burnley, Lancs, in driving wind and rain. 
2nd Jan 2018/ Sony PCM-M10/ Micboosters EM172 clippy/ Bubblebee L4

Singing Ringing Tree

The atlantic swell bends into the sheltered bay of Traigh Niosaboist, Isle Of Harris, Scotland. A little way offshore a great northern diver fishes between the breakers. Dusk, 8th Feb 2018.

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