# 275 Dawn in an apple tree - Derbyshire hills

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Podcast: [Radio Lento podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radio-lento-podcast-929089)
Published: 2025-07-13T21:03:00+00:00
Episode link: https://radiolento.podbean.com/e/275-dawn-in-an-apple-tree-derbyshire-hills/
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A bright April day has dawned in Derbyshire earlier in the spring. The air is unusually still for this time of year and this upland location. At just under a thousand feet barely a breeze is ruffling the trees surrounding the mics. These are the same trees that can be heard so powerfully in episode 250 - Moorland trees in mid-winter gales. Far across the valley, stretching from far left to far right of scene, a country road threads its way over the moors. It links the small Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge to the busier Cheshire town of Macclesfield about seven miles away. Due to a major land slip and road closure on the next valley, there is less traffic, though you can hear occasional cars threading the tarmac way through the landscape from time to time. Mid left down the field, a woodpecker. In the same copse, a song thrush. From different points in the mid-distance seesawing great tits. Wrens too, and wood pigeons, and a chif chaf, and a pheasant. Deep in the valley, geese can be heard over the reservoir. What made this segment of the overnight recording feel special though was the blackbird. As time passes the blackbird lands on a branch of the apple tree directly above the Lento box, and sings so sonorously. And then does it again, as if it knows how special it is to witness a singing blackbird so close.

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