Skylarks singing for the first time this year this morning. We have loads in the fields round our village, I miss their song when it suddenly stops in autumn.
On Monday I too heard my first skylarks. We were riding out of Stratford on the Loxley road. One was singing high enough to raise my spirits. The second, on the north side of the road, rose into the air in song, but hesitated at about 3 time the height of the hedge and sank back to the ground. Possibly the sight of a couple of geriatric cyclists watching was too much to cope with.
I was perplexed that the hedges on the sides of that bit of Loxley Road were covered with green bird-proof netting. I learned today that the netting was probably put there by property developers hoping to pre-empt conflicts between building more houses and displacing nesting birds. I need to stir things a bit in Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
We enjoyed a third skylark singing over Wellesbourne airfield.