I just love a misty sunrise and this morning’s was just about perfect. Wandering down the track at the bottom of the lane I went to my usual vantage point overlooking the valley and gazed across a misty scene lit by an orange hazy sun.

This seems like spring almost at its peak with the dawn chorus intense and rich. I had a great array of birds singing and calling. There were the stalwarts of our gardens including blackbirds, robins, goldinches, great tits, blue tits, long-tailed tits, wrens and a song thrush. Some larger birds joining in including wood pigeons and stock doves, carrion crows and jackdaws. These were then enriched by those of the hedgerow and field, including some summer visitors: skylark, chiffchaff, blackcap and whitethroat. For a time they all merged into one single voice of nature, marking the rising of a new sun and the warm day to come.

Here’s a video which captures just a little of that (slightly spoiled by the odd car on the distant main road).