Curlews

I love the sound of a curlew. We don't get them down here in the South.

I hope they're not endangered!

'Whaups' we called them in my Scottish childhood. I can hear their call in my head now you mention it jollyg. One of the sounds of my homeland. Oh, now you've made me all nostalgic!

We get them on the South Coast and I love their call, so distinctive.

I also love listening to robins on my walks they are so clear especially on a winters day.

I love the call of the curlew. I fish regularly on a large moorland reservoir in the Peak District and it is the only thing that ever distracts me from what I'm doing. I have to just sit and listen. I told DH that I wanted a recording of curlews as part if my funeral music (not that I'm going anywhere yet - I hope!) He thinks I'm bonkers!

It's the buzzard's plaintive cry that does it for me. I always stop, look up and listen. Wonderful.

I see and hear Curlews regularly on the beach opposite my house and in the nearby fields - lovely birds.

I loved to hear the curlews when we where in N Yorks walking up on the moors above Wensleydale - we don't get them here in the East Midlands. Its a beautiful if plaintive cry.

Yes, that's where I first heard them Teetime. Wensleydale. Lovely area.

Todays lot just flew in! However they are the silent variety, maybe 20-30 birds