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Song of the Cetti’s
Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Tuesday, 10th November 2009
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I’M GETTING to the end of drawing the maps for my latest book so no time to draw today, except at the start of this evening’s Wakefield Naturalists’ Society meeting, as people reported what wildlife has been seen locally during the last month.
The most surprising migrant is a male Cetti’s Warbler which is still hanging around,
and still singing (in the rhythm of Beethoven’s Fifth symphony; ‘Dum-
Tonight’s talk by Roger Gaynor was about the Yorkshire Dales National Park, established as recently as 1954. Local government boundary changes have resulted in large portions of it now being in the county of Cumbria.
While parts of the Dales are very familiar to me, I realise from Roger’s talk that there are many corners that I’ve missed out on so far.