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04 Feb 23 - 08:54 AM (#4164401) Subject: BS: Skylarks From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler There used to be a thread about where to hear skylarks but I can't find it. I just heard the first skylark of 2023 soring upward over our house in Rossendale today, 4th Feb. Robin |
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04 Feb 23 - 09:13 AM (#4164403) Subject: RE: BS: Skylarks From: Steve Shaw That's early. I heard a great tit singing last week, and yesterday I heard the first wren song of the year so far. I do miss things due to my high-frequency hearing loss. Skylarks are on the red list of the most endangered birds. Up there in Rossendale you have lots of good open-country habitat for them. In Cornwall we have open coastal heath and short grassland which are ideal. A major cause of their decline is farming practices, not just use of pesticides which can pass up the food chain but also of the proliferation of winter wheat and winter barley (replacing spring-sown crops), which are both too tall by breeding season for skylarks to nest. |
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04 Feb 23 - 09:34 AM (#4164405) Subject: RE: BS: Skylarks From: Mrrzy ...I want to walk the green lanes and hedgerows And feel the heart beating fierce and strong I want to stand deep in central London And hear the notes of a skylark's song... -from our very own Tabster |
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04 Feb 23 - 10:05 AM (#4164407) Subject: RE: BS: Skylarks From: Dave the Gnome Did you know that they sing and fart at the same time. That's how they hover. |
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04 Feb 23 - 11:32 AM (#4164420) Subject: RE: BS: Skylarks From: Steve Shaw Well, Mrrzy, you're as likely to hear a skylark deep in central London as you'd be to hear a nightingale singing in Berkeley Square... |
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06 Feb 23 - 09:06 PM (#4164665) Subject: RE: BS: Skylarks From: leeneia That's great, Robin. I'm glad your heard the skylark. In 1995, I was on a beach in Scotland, and we saw a bird flying high in the air over the nearby land, singing beautifully. I think it was a skylark. |