Catch ‘em young!

Day 271 #365DaysWild

Catch ‘em young!

My favourite little boy went around the garden with me in the rain using the Merlin app, identifying bird calls and songs.

‘What’s that one calling Poppa?’ He asked.

I couldn’t hear it. Roy Dennis remarked on the sad loss of the ability to hear bird song as he aged.. These days I struggle to hear redwings flying overhead. And treecreepers.

Before I could answer, up popped ‘Goldcrest’ on the app.

That’s another whose frequency is too high for me to register.

At home, our boy used daddy’s phone to ID garden birds and he sent me a list.

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These posts will be part of a family book I am writing for my grandchildren’s children and other family members of their generation.

What wildlife will be left by the time they grow up?