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Sound Escape 148: A morning of gulls and rooks on the Somerset Coast
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Where the Somerset Levels meet the sea, broad, marshy pastures and forgotten fields host gulls, rooks, crows and egrets, foraging for food stirred up cattle and horses wintering here. But the birds are ever watchful – there are hunters here, peregrines roving the overcast sky ready to strike.
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Recorded by Fergus Collins.
Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: editor@countryfile.com
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BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Recorded by Fergus Collins.
Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: editor@countryfile.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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