'A conversation across time and space': the power of birdsong

Musician Cosmo Sheldrake is on a mission to highlight the loss of UK birdlife with an album of avian chatterWhy should we listen to birds? – podcastI’m sitting by a pond with musician Cosmo Sheldrake, wearing a pair of headphones that are attached to a large, fluffy microphone a few feet away. An obstacle course of wires surrounds us and there are two more microphones hidden in a bush by a bird feeder. It looks like lockdown’s answer to a silent disco, but far from being engros