BBC Dawn Chorus Campaign

Sunday 4th May is International Dawn Chorus Day and the BBC is inviting listeners to go online to an interactive map of places where they can hear a specially recorded local version of the Dawn Choris, that wonderful  symphony of birdsong at the start of every single day.

For the BBC in South Yorkshire, Andy has produced the Dawn Chorus project. He spent a very chilly couple of mornings from 0330 to 0600 am in one of Sheffields most ancient and large woodlands, Ecclesall Woods.

Ecclesall Woods is a 400 year old heritage woodland with its own working sawmill and bird sanctuary on the South Western edge of Sheffield .

Andy recorded the Dawn Chorus there with local ornithologist and bird lover Jim Clarke. You can see and hear Jim’s commentary and the raw Dawn Chorus itself by logging onto: BBC Website Link