January 30 2002

Today is the first day that I have heard any real effort at a dawn chorus. Up to now one would hear a few Tits and perhaps a Robin making occasional twitters at between 06:30 and 07:00 in the morning and that would be it. They would go silent again quite soon after. But this morning at about 06:30 I heard very distinctly one or maybe two Blackbirds. That for me marks the beginning of the Dawn Chorus. Now they didn't go on for two long but who can blame them on the first day. It was probably just a voice test to make sure everything was working OK.