Our practice run for live-streaming nightingales live on Sunday evening is in full swing – the light hear at Northward Hill on the Isle of Sheppy. The light is fading and the evening chorus of cuckoo, lesser whitethroat and whitethroat, blackbird and is in full swing. A nightingale struck up a few notes but is waiting for the day time singers to clear the stage.
My colleagues, Brain Reid and Rolf Williams are busy with cables and boxes and the rest of the kit.
We’ll record what we can this evening and make sure our set up works – ahead of the main event on Sunday.
The reserve looks wonderful in the setting sun – parties of little egrets fly by and the cuckoo is closer now. A hobby flies overhead and the distant sounds of oystercatchers drifts up from the marshes close by.
More later with some picttures
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