{"id":15687,"date":"2022-04-08T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/?p=112846"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:13:09","slug":"listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/rss_feed\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen live: Singing with Nightingales on 13 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tanya Jackson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 08 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Every year, the UK welcomes the most musical of birds, the nightingale<\/a>, as they return from Africa to breed. For the first six weeks of their arrival, the males put on a nightly musical performance, with the aim of marking their territory and attracting a mate.<\/p>\n

On 13th April, folk musician and author Sam Lee<\/a> is in attendance in a secret location in Sussex to bring us a livestream of the first nightingales to arrive here. An experienced wildlife watcher, Sam records the birdsong and beams it back into the studio, where it is skillfully mixed with selected compositions from musicians all over the world. The effect is a magical duet of bird and human \u2013 in the spirit of Beatrice Harrison\u2019s now-controversial Cello and the Nightingale<\/a> performance back in 1924.<\/p>\n

This annual duet is a mesmerising event and will be livestreamed this year at 11pm on 13th April 2022. Set your alarm, and view either here or on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sadly, nightingales are in major decline and are likely to die out in the UK, being on our Red List of species at greatest risk. There may not be many more chances to hear its captivating song, or to enjoy the interplay between instrument and bird.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tanya Jackson Published: Friday, 08 April 2022 at 12:00 am Every year, the UK welcomes the most musical of birds, the nightingale, as they return from Africa to breed. For the first six weeks of their arrival, the males put on a nightly musical performance, with the aim of marking their territory and attracting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15688,"template":"","categories":[1,27],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/listen-live-singing-with-nightingales-on-13-april-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Tanya Jackson Published: Friday, 08 April 2022 at 12:00 am Every year, the UK welcomes the most musical of birds, the nightingale, as they return from Africa to breed. For the first six weeks of their arrival, the males put on a nightly musical performance, with the aim of marking their territory and attracting…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/15687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}