Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt

A lyrical celebration of birdsong and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. At this time of year blackbirds never simply fly instead like reluctantly retired officers theyre always on manoeuvres and its easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker every shed a redoubt and every hedgebottom a potential place of ambush As the world went silent in lockdown something else happened for the first time many of us started becoming more aware of the spring Paperback softback