If, unlike me, you weren’t awake at 4am this morning, then you may want to take the chance to listen to the recorded version of this morning’s Dawn Chorus at Cley Marshes in North Norfolk.

Listen again and see some of the photographs I took during the set up and broadcast.

If you want a honk-by-honk (there were a lot of geese) account of the broadcast then you can read that here as well as find out more about why I was doing what I was doing.

Broadcast

Gallery

There were two of us in the hide. Dr Johanna Wadsley is the Research Associate for Sounding Coastal Change and as well as climbing round fences and getting the cables over very big puddles, Johanna brought supper along!

Sounding Coastal Change

Setting up the audio mixer

Microphones set up in the reed bed

One of two microphones listening out over the marsh

Johanna getting supper ready!

Sleep time for Johanna

We’re live on air!

4.15 view out of the hide

Fifteen minutes later and daylight is coming

Lighter still

My view from the hide

5.12 and time for the sun to rise

It shines in through the hive hatch

All systems are still go

New friends – Shelducks and Avocets

Lovely early morning light

Time to pack up…

…and time for breakfast!