The day before the rain

...I walked along a footpath I had often seen but never ventured down.

I found a nice oak to sit under, for my coffee and my plums.

But what was most notable, perhaps, was the birdsong emanating from a little copse. There was a lime tree with so many basal shoots that the tree itself was like a vast bush from which a trunk sprouted, and in that bush and above, so many birds.

I did not take video and these two pictures in the video are of the view from under the oak and an interesting insect (!), but the sound is from the Merlin App....

https://youtu.be/cTFNoeulM38