Join George as he takes his morning walk in the fields amidst the glorious sounds of nature.

Hello, it’s George in Shropshire and I’m out on my morning walk round the fields and it’s a wonderfully quiet day today. A bit warmer than recently, and I just thought I should record the sounds.

There’s a thrush, I don’t know whether it’s Mistle or Song. I can never tell the difference. It’s been singing for the last few minutes across the field. And there’s another one further away.

There’s a blackbird in the background as well.

Can you just pick up pigeon cooing away behind me?

I just think this is really a lovely peaceful day.

I’ve got quite dark, deep grey clouds scudding across but quite slowly. Scudding is the wrong word. Sliding across the sky. The sun is about to come out behind one. Oh, pigeon.

Lupins looking around through the broad been crop. It’s a fodder bean crop for feeding to sheep or cattle in the winter. Done well this year, really tall. It’ll just be allowed to die dry and then probably in about 2 more months it’ll be cut and foraged and stored away. There’s a field of canary seed plants, I suppose I could call them, which is an unusual crop round here and I think it’s been planted this year because the weather prevented the farmer from planting the usual spring grown wheat or barley. So he bought this stuff in and apparently the price, the future price, for canary seed is very good. So he’s hoping to possibly making a little bit of an extra profit on that. It’s growing well as far as I can tell. I’m no expert on arables.

The guy who owns this land he uses a sort of conservation type grant to leave very wide margins around the fields. And half of that margin, round about 8 or 10 foot, is left to grow wild, and there’s loads of little yellow, what’s it called, field, no meadow something. It’s legume, a little yellow flower. It’s rather pretty. It comes out at this time of year. Otherwise just grass, various grasses and docks and cow parsley and clover there. And, I can’t remember, I’m not doing very well today. Whatever it is anyway. And another strip of about 8 foot he cuts, mows, roughly mows, every, I don’t know, couple of months during the summer and it’s a sort of unofficial bridle way for people to come and walk and in particular for horse riders to come and just exercise their horses. It’s very nice, I expect he does it, did it, A. because of the grant and B. because it is a bit of a model farm around here apparently, and C. because I think he had his children and friend who ride horses. So they get the benefit of it. But it’s great for dog walkers and there are very few of us who know about it and use it so it’s always very, very quiet down here.

Anyway, that’s a bit of peaceful start to the day which I needed. Yeh, on my way up to the little slope I had the worst chest pain, heart pain, that I’ve had for probably a year. I don’t know why today but it’s alright now so I’ll go and enjoy the rest.

I hope you enjoy just relaxing sitting to this. Probably best done with your eyes closed, and imagining. So until next time. Keep safe and keep getting out into the natural world if you can.

Bye Bye