
Bird Listening with the AONB
The problem with bird watching is that you cannot always see them. Last Saturday The Wild Watch taught us to use our ears instead, with a range of different sound-based activities for children. A violin played us the tunes of owls, wood pigeons, doves , cuckoos and warblers, and we drew the pattern of the notes. We sang our own versions of birdsong in a choir and then took what we had learned into the outside world. A soundscape opened up for us whilst sitting in the churchy