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Dawn Chorus with the High Park Nature Centre
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Live music returns to the city and you have free front row tickets from wherever you are. Dawn Chorus is the bird song before sunrise. Rise early, between 5 and 6 am on International Dawn Chorus Day or any day in advance to experience the magic of bird song from your local ravine, your balcony or from bed with the window open as 50 million migrating birds return to Toronto. Experienced birders, Songbirding Podcast host Rob Porter and Toronto Bird Celebration Coordinator, Andrés Jimenez share a 15-minute recording of the Dawn Chorus from the GTA. Q&A to follow. May 2 at 9
Michael Morpurgo: Sing along with the birds and you are sure to find hope
To mark International Dawn Chorus Day, the beloved author looks back on a timely encounter with a blackbird in the garden
2 May 2021 • 6:00am Making books, writing my stories, telling my tales, has kept me hopeful all through the pandemic.
Credit: JAY WILLIAMS
I am too young to remember the war, just. But if there has been a Dunkirk moment in my life, it has been during the past year. Keeping calm and carrying on was no longer just some nostalgic historical slogan. It was what I was trying to do, we were all trying to do. What else could we do?
05:00, 1 MAY 2021
Trentham Gardens in the spring (Image: DAILY MIRROR)
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The Trentham Estate is to open at 5am on Sunday to enable visitors to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day.
Dubbed a celebration of nature’s greatest symphony , people across the world will get up at dawn to listen to birdsong - from Britain’s humble sparrow to crooning cowbirds in the Caribbean.
Until May 5
Nude Tin Can art gallery is throwing open its doors for its first live exhibition in a year. Spring Back One, will feature local and UK artists across a range of genres, including portrait, landscape, abstract, ceramics, digital art, illustration and sculpture. Owner of the St Albans gallery, Hatty NAME said she was looking forward to welcoming visitors again. There is nothing more pleasing then when a complete stranger discovers a piece of art they love when they walk into Nude Tin Can, it s an event to cherish, we miss it incredibly.’
Chalk and Cheese by Jason Pentney, one of 18 artists exhibiting at The Nude Tin Gallery s Spring Back One