Podcast Appearances
But basically the whole idea is it makes the flying more efficient and the lead bird can drop out and another one can take over.
But you're dead right, they do fly in Vs and we used to always have a competition
to see how many could we see in a V when we were watching the birds off Cape Clear down in the south west of Ireland and we used to get sometimes in the autumn up to 100 or 150 in a big V out over the water and it was spectacular to watch.
On this trip, it's literally hop on, hop off.
I get off in Dingle tomorrow because I'm not on the full trip this time, but they've asked me to come on and I'm doing Dingle tomorrow where I will be talking more about Tom Crean, my favourite polar explorer, but also talking about Irish countryside birds as we walk through the Kerry countryside.
Don't forget on Sunday, 3rd of May from midnight on Saturday, if you like, for seven hours live, the Dawn Chorus live from Cuskinny Marsh Nature Reserve in Cove.
Same place where we've been broadcasting from for years.
Niall Hatch, you'll be there with Jim Wilson.
Yeah, and of course the beauty about these long-term recordings is that if we come back again in 10 years time, you can literally do a survey of the overall population of birds in the same place by comparing recordings from 10 years ago to today.
So what have you got?
You've got woodland, you've got lagoon, you've got reed beds, you've got farmland.
You're surrounded by farmland.
Really?
And there is always the odd bird that sings throughout the night because of light pollution or for a little bit of disturbance or whatever reason, we don't know.
But birds always do sing through the night.
Time flies.
The 2nd of May into the 3rd of May.
So midnight, you know yourself, I have to be careful how I say this, but pretty much midnight on Saturday through for seven hours until 7am on Sunday morning, the 3rd of May for the Dawn Chorus.
Let's have a listen to that.
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