Song of the wild
It has a bittersweet quality, it keeps you hovering, not knowing whether you are uplifted or actually feeling incredibly moved by the tragedy that seems to be somehow wrapped up in this little bit of singing. It’s the way it grows, the intensity of it; it seems to split in midair as a sound and then goes in two directions at once.”
This is David Gray’s poetic description of the song of the curlew. The singer-songwriter has been pondering the bird as he starts work on a piece of music commissioned by the RSPB about Europe’s largest wader, a species he has always loved.
“The first time was with my Dad. We used to go on
