Wild Radio Project

Wild Radio Project shares the beauty and biodiversity of our natural world with on-line listeners in local homelands around the world.

Wild Radio Project is a platform created by Devon artist Anna Keleher to share wildlife stories, blogs and audio. Read Anna's latest blog on Berry Head National Nature Reserve with former Wildlife Warden Nigel Smallbones. (Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust).

"Seabirds with Nigel"
It’s early morning on Berry head as Nigel and I make a bee-line for a special seabird nesting site. Nigel wants to show me what’s happening with the shag families just south of South Fort. The cliff top is fluffy with grasses and pink valerian. In the cocky blue eyes of a Jackdaw I think I can see the abyss.

We lean on a wooden perch high above the slopping waves as Nigel checks the resident birds and hands me his binoculars. The lens is occupied by a large, fuzzy, grey and heavenly ugly Shag chick. So that I let out a bird like squeak.

I fit my recorder with its full fluffy grey plumage and turn it on. One press and its eye flashes red, two and we are recording. The wind buffets us gently while Nigel tells the engaging story of a shag couple and their nest building antics.

At the end of the session we shelter behind a bush to make at least one clear recording for the “Wildbones” collection I am making for radio.

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