MORNING HAS BROKEN
This morning, to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, Spurtle despatched its bird correspondent to the tranquil slopes of upper Greenside.
Here, at 5.19 am, somewhere above the omnipresent hum and hiss of OMNi plant, is what they heard.
Blackbird, blue tit, chiffchaff, coal tit, herring gull, nuthatch, robin, song thrush, wood pigeon, wren, Eurasian drug dealer and common taxi.