On my birthday, it has become a tradition for us in recent years to rise before dawn and head out in search of nightingales. Their song is perhaps the most beautiful #birdsong in the world - once heard, never forgotten! It's fluty and mellifluous, and has a deep, delicious richness like nothing else I know. They fill my heart with joy!
Alas, this morning there were fewer there than previous years at the place we go to see and hear them. But we heard two birds, and through the tangle of undergrowth I managed to get a good view in my binoculars.
Astonishingly, I appear to be 21 again!
(Photo by husband.)






