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Yesterday a wall of grey-brown across the west horizon, and today a bit of rain [as drizzle] arrived. Whilst sunny yesterday, I sat and enjoyed the first concerted #woodpecker of the year. A few exploratory taps over previous days but this session was surely rehearsed. The bird went through all the vowel sounds on several trees within a few hundred metres, ah-r-r-r-r… eh-r-r-r-r… ir-r-r-r-r… OR-r-r-r-r [particularly resonant and impressive!]… ur-r-r-r-r… all the more impressive for the stereophonic panning. Not actually in our vowel-sounds order, plus with repeats. Punctuated by the odd chuckle of vocal delight, voice a bit "buzzier" than the woodpeckers I lived with last year, who were very loud and bright in their laughing.