In Your Field: James Robinson - 'After only 24 hours, I have heard 36 species'

As I write this, a few neighbours’ mowers are buzzing around in the distance.

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In Your Field: James Robinson - 'After only 24 hours, I have heard 36 species'

I can hear them as the door is wide open to the back garden, but our back garden has a better crop of grass on than some of our meadows, so I think I'll leave our big mowers in the shed just yet and hope...

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