At home, sounds of spring, May bank holiday morning

May 07, 2013, 11:02 PM

Spring has been a long time coming. Here in the UK we're particularly surprised when a bank holiday weekend is fine and sunshine-filled, as this one was. The birds and bees were doing their springtime thing. Bees flying in through our open kitchen door and buzzing against the window*, a blackbird singing for spring, just outside the back door.

(*no bees were harmed during the making of this recording. The bee was carefully released back into the wild immediately, after recording.)

Recording device: an old 'dumb phone'