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Saturday 08 May,  2010, 4.30 a.m

 

Join us on Newbigging Farm, Broxburn for a guided walk to hear and enjoy the dawn chorus. Our guide will be Mark Adams. Breakfast will be provided so booking is required. Send an e-mail to Fr Chris at to the Jesuit Centre or call 0131 477 5795.

 

We will gather at Sacred Heart Church at 4.00 a.m. sharp for shared transport to Broxburn. If you can provide spaces in a car please let Fr Chris know by ringing 0131 447 5795. If you wish to travel directly please download a map, or find it on Google Maps by following the link here .

During the Dawn Chorus Walk last year we hear the following birdsong:

 

Sedge Warbler

Willow Warbler

Black Cap (on reflection, Mark thought this was a White Throat)

Chaffinch

Lark

Song Thrush

Pheasant

Yellow Hammer/Corn Bunting

Wren

Blackbird

Carrion Crow

Great Tit

Hedge Sparrow

Wood Pigeon

Herring Gull

 

To learn more about birds and their song, you may like to click here to go to a page provided by the BBC which identifies some of the common birds often heard in a dawn chorus, including a sample of their song, an audio description of that bird, and a photo of what to look out for.

 

Click on a bird to hear its song!

 

(thanks to the BBC Natural History Unit!)