Skylarks

Another added: “Time it for low tide, especially if it's early morning-ish and you can walk for miles on endless golden sands with the backdrop of white cliffs and skylarks.

Between March and July 31, keeping your dog on a lead on open access land is also to protect ground nesting birds, as dogs run about in the undergrowth they flush birds such as nightjars and skylarks off their nests and may cause them to abandon them.

This includes design features and mitigations to help protect priority species and habitat, such as Skylarks, Great Crested Newts, and valuable grassland habitats.

On summer days, skylarks shower us with song from a height, which means we have to strain our eyes to pick out the tiny, serenading dots.

In spring, the pass was filled with curlew trills and I stood transfixed by lapwing aerobatics and lost myself in the songs of skylarks.