Jenny Shelton

said there was more birdsong in their day, you might have noticed that yourself, that it does seem to have dimmed a little since we can remember in recent decades.

The Wildlife Trust are trying to reverse that and bring birdsong back, bring nature back.

And everyone wins.

It's for everybody's benefit.

That's the other thing, I think.

to mention is that birdsong, although it sounds so beautiful to us, it isn't for us.

It's serious business for birds.

They are singing for their survival.

They are singing for the right to reproduce.

And it would be such a travesty for birdsong to dim and disappear.

And there are certain birds that we're focusing on in particular, things like nightingales and turtle doves, for instance.

Numbers have just absolutely crashed

I think by about 90% in some cases.

Nightingales, of course, one of the big stars of the dawn chorus.

There's a reason that people go mad for a nightingale.

Like they honestly sound astonishing.

If you ever hear, well, it's unmistakable.

I remember going looking for a nightingale once and I was sort of creeping about in this little scrubby woodland and I could hear something.

I was like, is that the nightingale?

Is it just sort of tuning up?