An unusual calm

Thanks to the Covid 19 pandemic, there's much less traffic around, and I hear sounds I don't usually hear. 

This morning, out doing a spot of gardening before rain sets in for the day, I realise that the odd scratchy, burbling sounds I had thought were magpies, are in fact heron chicks begging for food. The heronry is close enough for me to see the youngsters without using binoculars, but I've never before been able to hear them. 

And, bubbling up through a moment of silence - a curlew. Sheer magic!