dawn chorus

But the music of the spring-tide is past; the cuckoo is no longer vocal; the dawn-chorus is silent; summer has stilled the voices that but lately trilled so tirelessly, and, until…

[I]t was a poor woodcock year in the South of England; that young starlings were nearly fledged on the 25h January 1913; that the dawn choruses in March and up to the 10th April we…