Atmospheric recordings of some of the characteristic bird song of wood, heath, marsh and moor from various locations around Britain. Listen to some of the more unusual songs to be heard, such as grasshopper warbler and a capercaillie lek, as well as famous virtuosos like the nightingale.

13 Tracks

01. Before the waking hour : nightingale on the brecks (4m 48s)
02. Ancient woods and timber fields : various woodland communities (14m 57s)
03. Egdon heath : the devil's birds and desolation (9m 6s)
04. Farm and village : man's associates (6m 49s)
05. Reedbed and marsh : some of the typical warblers (4m 57s)
06. Caledonian pines : a caper lek and the moorland fringe (14m 42s)
07. Onto the moor : wind-born cackles and cries (4m 43s)
08. Birchwoods and sitka spruce : cameos of some highland thrushes (6m 10s)
09. An isolated community : ossian woods (7m 9s)

Recorded and produced by Geoff Sample, Published by Wildsong