Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner

First bird of my day: a dunnock singing v loudly at head height drowning out the tits. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: other than the blue tit I dreamt I was saving from a cat, it was the blackbird singing in a cherry tree, his song crowded by blossom. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a blue tit zooming from blossom to blossom in the mizzle. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a collared dove pottering around on a sharp bend in a road, obliviously alive as I screeched to a halt. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a heron standing on one leg in the mist. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a perfect wren flying low into a hedge bank that is bedecked with primroses and celandines. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a barn own, barn owl!!!!!!!! A flash of pearl, like an impression of the moonlight across a field. Silence. Dark. Gone. Wow. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a barn own, barn owl!!!!!!!! A flash of pearl, like an impression of the moonlight across a field. Silence. Dark. Gone. Wow. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: ‘my’ Dunnock amongst the dwarf daffodils. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: blackbirds singing in the sleepy village gardens, dedicated to #SarahEverard and her family on this horrible day. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: yellowhammers lit up in the sunshine. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a wood pigeon flying over the garden as I opened the window to the smell of spring in the air. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: chirping sparrows alongside singing blackbirds. We are so lucky to share our home territories with birds. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: the most beautiful sound of all: blackbirds singing. One is in the budding apple tree while the others’ notes are trickling over the rooftops from surrounding gardens, lighting the village up with melody. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: blackbirds singing ! The most joyful sound of spring. Earliest ever in my memory so their liquid notes drenching the garden felt extra welcome. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: robins singing in the street lamp glow hours ago. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day; the unmistakable quite strange voice of a Little owl screeching, keeping me company as the rain softly fell on a landscape that has begun to wake up, dotted with yellow of the celandines and courting owls. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: an early Jackdaw pottering around outside the village shop. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: chaffinches galore, mixed up with yellowhammers and linnets with corn buntings like cherries on top. Bird central. Happy place. Awful weather. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a buzzard mewing in the yellow-tinged dawn, seemingly with the sky to itself. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: greenfinch in the hedge sounding like a chain smoker with his wheezy call. It’s brighter everyone. Spring is round the corner. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: the electric thrills of the sound of corn buntings as they perch in the farm hedgerow. I will never get enough of them. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: starlings, all hanging out on the roof, noisily chatting to each other like the children waiting for their school bus below. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

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First bird of my day: ‘my’ Dunnock skulking where he normally is, probably because the temperature has suddenly dropped. His feathers look so warm. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a kestrel narrowly missing flying into my head. In fairnesss I was perched in a hedge. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a song fight between a Dunnock and a robin despite the pouring rain. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: skylarks singing in the dark sky above the wet fields pulling our shared territory skywards. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours

First bird of my day: a whole raft of sleeping teal in a misty wetland. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

First bird of my day: yellowhammer sunshine in the gloom of another wet February morning. #firstbirdofmyday #WhatsYours