About the event

An early morning Spring walk around the Woodah Farm site in the company of a local ornithologist who (weather permitting!) will identify the resident songsters as they make themselves announced

The walk will take place in a variety of habitats including orchards, hedgerows and woodland

There will be refreshments (tea, coffee and bacon butties) available at the end of the walk.

David is a well-known birding expert and is very interested in Natural History generally, but his main focus is birds. David has done a lot of bird survey work on Dartmoor, on the Exe Estuary, on the island of Lundy, and has a long running monitoring programme for the breeding birds along the Teign Valley at Dunsford Woods involving some 90 nest boxes and going back some 40 years. He’s lived in Bridford, (just across the valley from Woodah), since the 1970s and knows the birds of this area well, and thoroughly enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for birds and their amazing lives with other people.

David also plays a lot of music, so perhaps that helps with his ability to identify birds purely from their songs and calls! However, we hope that on the Dawn Chorus event, David can demonstrate that anybody, with or without much musical ability, can readily learn the songs of a good number of our common birds. Our songsters at Woodah are likely to be a mix of regular resident birds along with some more exotic recently arrived summer migrants that have come from warmer climes in the south. However, at this stage we’re not going to give you any sneak preview of which ones we might hear...you'll just have to come along to find this out!