Bird Listening......Quail, Corn Bunting, Skylark and Grey Partridge

For most people this is just a field, and rather a plain one at that. Last night I went up to Pitstone hill and listened to a male quail that has been calling 'wet my lips' there recently. Odd maybe, but for me, as a birder, a field is not about just what you see, it's the sounds that I love. In this clip filmed in Sussex it is amazing the life that this field contains, and yet you can see none of it. Did I see the quail? No. Do I care? No. It was fantastic to know it was there and its call will stay with me as a reminder of a lovely summer evening.