Churchyard recordings — St Thomas à Becket Church, Huntington

Churchyard recordings

From February 2015 to January 2016 we made one minute monthly recordings of birdsong in the churchyard within an hour of sunrise.  Alongside birdsong, you will hear a variety of extraneous sounds, including lambs and sheep, a cockerel, rain and wind. 

We are grateful to Herefordshire Ornithological Club for identifying the birds below. If you hear others, we'd be grateful if you'd email us.

February 2015

Robin singing with Crow in the background. At 19 seconds on the recording  a Woodpigeon calls. Towards the end a Blackbird and Song Thrush are singing and House Sparrows are calling.

March 2015

Mostly a Wren and at 21 seconds on the recording there's a Blackbird in the background.

April 2015

A Blackbird, which at 18 is interspersed with snatches of Song Thrush.

May 2015

A Blackbird with a Chaffinch singing at 15, 24 and 50

June 2015

There is a Wren (thinner sound) and a Blackbird (fluty song) singing and at 48 a Goldcrest sings.

July 2015

Wren alarm call and a Crow at 26. 

August 2015

At 12 a Wood-pigeon then only lambs calling.

September 2015

A Robin sings with a Crow in the background.

October 2015

Rain, Robin, Crow (and Silver Dorking cockerel)

November 2015

A Wren alarm call, at 46 a Blackbird alarm call, and at 54, a Robin singing.

December 2015

A Robin singing, Jackdaws calling in the background and at 48 a Robin singing faintly.

January 2016

Mostly a Song Thrush singing.