As a child of the 50s, I used to hear this beautiful sound daily in the fields around the small market town where I live. Sadly, the meadows, hedgerows, lanes and ponds of my childhood now lie under acres of concrete and tarmac. This piece of music evokes so many happy memories of better times.
That so sad. What a bittersweet memory. I wish we could save our beautiful Earth from such destruction. Why can't we live in a more co-existing way with nature? :(
Same here, the meadows are now football training grounds for Newcastle United Football Club. The only true meadow grassland for many miles, it was an oasis of calm.
Walking at the back of the I54 Jaguar factory in Wolverhampton, I heard a bird song reminiscent of my boyhood in Stoke, and, there, hovering in the sky, 20 feet or so in the air, singing its heart out, was a skylark. Made my day.
I too grew up in an area of fields and grassland on the Essex/Hertfordshire border in the 50s, that area too has also been decimated, sad what we do to this wonderful world around us. I wonder how many 15 year olds would hear, let alone be able to identify, a skylark's call.?
Yesterday Monday I was relaxing on the beach,the warmth was like the tropics,so so beautiful then I was blessed with a skylark singing above me,what bliss,thank you for your wondrous chatter.
I came here after hearing Corrie Ten Boom testimony about the skylark that appeared singing at the roll call in the concentration camp. Powerful. Gods Mercy to all that fear Him. She said Psalm 103:11. Amen and Shalom
There is essentialy nothing random about birdsong, they are communicating social creatures - some with an astoundingly high symbol rate! Parus major sometimes sound like a modem when talking to their offspring, just like Australian magpies!
Similar here - I'm a musician and studio engineer. I've been playing this back at slow speed to determine pitch intervals and such, to find any repeating patterns.
Not sure where you live in the world, but I too missed their amazing song for about 20 years, until I drove to Studham Common (near Luton) early this morning and immediately listened to 2 at the same time after only a short walk! You should have seen the stupid smile on my face! 😃😁
The sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain For your dreams be tossed, and blown Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you’ll never walk alone…
That is exactly why I came here! I had the wonderful experience today of teaching a group of my adult English students in a newly war-torn country this song, and singing it together! So I wanted to play them the sound of the lark :)
We have them in abundance in our area, their song reminds me of my childhood in the 70/80’s as we used to do a lot of bird watching and nest hunting but I never did find a Skylarks nest. I’m sat in the car on a hill eating fish and chips whilst listening to one now 😀
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
When I was a young lad or house was surrounded by farm land, the fields were full of wildlife. All the hedges had birds nests in them, hedgehogs etc under them. Of all the different types of birds I would see, the skylark used to fascinate me. I would stand and watch it fly straight up, sing its heart out whilst hovering, then drop down in stages hovering and singing at every stage. Then someone decided it would be a good idea to build 3 housing estates on the fields. I came on here to remind myself what the skylark looks and sounds like, as I haven't seen or heard one for years.
God that's heartbreaking. I came here because I'm teaching Romantic poetry and realised I had no idea why poets wrote about skylarks, because I'd never seen or heard one. This video instantly showed me how special they are.
I live in the Scottish Borders and literally saw a skylark on a hedge today whilst out on a walk in the fields at the back of my house and then actually (finally) spotted one hovering way up , singinging away! My life is complete :)
I came here after Reading the poem (The Green Field) by the poet Christina Rosetti after she talked about the beauty of the voice of this bird, it is really beautiful 😍❤️
when I was a child in the village, when I helped my grandmother to plant/weed the fields and dig up the harvest, this bird used to meet us in the mornings
When you say, "where I could lay on the grass" I thought of the danger of Ticks, and then at 2 minutes 38 seconds I see what could be a Tick just under a Skylark's eye? There is much beauty in our world, but then a few things that rob us of full joy. These are great videos.
I came here after reading the poem The Lark Ascending that inspired Ralph Vaughan Williams to compose his glorious piece of the same name. I wanted to know what birdsong inspired two such beautiful works. I'm not disappointed.
As a young man, I spent days and days at the local gliding club out in the country. The song of the skylark, in memory, appeared to be an ever-present feature.
We used to have skylark nesting on the raised bog land behind were I live in summer but you never see them anymore they make a beautiful song it would be so nice to hear them again
the skylark reminds me of my childhood, I grew up from north eastern part of China, Manchuria, where it had many Skylarks in spring singing and hovering over the sky, I haven't been back for 5 years, and last time I went back, such birds disappeared, but lots of pheasants instead. I guess pheasants compete off those skylarks.
Skylarks eat insects (with a bit of plant matter), pheasants eat plant matter (with a few insects). I'd assume the aerial insects were decimated in the time you were away.
Was surprised by one this morning ,he flew straight into my closed window and then started peeking through as though he left something inside . He tapped on the door and I was so scared to move fearing he would fly away He landed on my plants ,sang for a ten second then flew off . Never saw a bird with a Mohawk before so I had to look up RU-vid 😂
“People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?” Kahlil Gibran brought me here
I came here after reading 'The Country Of Larks' by Gail Simmons. A beautiful book detailing the irreplaceable and beautiful history and wildlife of the Chilterns, currently being destroyed by HS2.
I’m reading a book by Elly Griffiths. Ruth Galloway is an archaeologist who teaches in Norfolk and lives at the edge of the salt flats on the North Sea. In the previous book, Dying Fall, she stays in a cottage in Lytham while consulting on a dig that has revealed the possible burial place of King Arthur. I live in Pennsylvania, US, and I’m learning a good deal about Norfolk and Blackpool, checking youtube vids on areas mentioned, and I just now came in search of the song of the skylark as Ruth visits a church ruin in Saxlingham Thorpe, silence all around except for the song of a skylark….an exquisite song.
Came here after reading Paul McCartney’s recent book with his comments on his songs. In Mother Nature’s Son he said he has fond memories as a kids watching skylarks rise vertically
Corrie ten boons testimony brought me here, she was talking about how her sister was killed in a concentration camp and how a man showed off his cruelties on her, she could hardly look and then a Skylark was in the sky singing above them and all of the people looked up saw God's love how that his great love for us is greater than the cruelties of man, She said that when we christians are persecuted God's glory rests on us, At night my 4 year old daughter woke up and crawled in bed with us, as she was coming to the bed the phone started playing the video on the Holy Spirit and she said when she was 5 years old she got saved I can't remember the exact words but you can watch her video on The Holy Spirit, She has an amazing testimony,
I'm here after reading the line " Larks rose to the sky and I could hear their joyous song." In Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Viktor E Frankl”
I lived in Ngongotaha, New Zealand growing up, there was a paddock at the end of the street where the skylarks used to hover and sing for ages in the summer. Now it’s built over with industrial buildings including at one stage a car wreckers yard
These were introduced by the settlers, as they were here on Vancouver Island. The population reached a peak in the 60s but has now declined and should soon die out altogether. Development of the land and modern farming practises are causing a steep decline in numbers throughout their range.
And imagine that in Romania it's completely legal to kill them. A crime against nature..and no one cares. In romanian we say "ciocârlia" (skylark) which is also the name of the well-known song by George Enescu.
Bogdan Roman thats really sad. Im glad that in the US you can be put in jail and fined up to $20,000 for killing a native species. Fish and Wildlife Act. Very strict with birds, especially song birds and endangered birds. You cant be caught in possession with a native bird either. Only people with special licenses.
Corrin Jensen Yes, it is sickening. I think that it is a general phenomenon around the globe that it is our home, and we are forgetting that almost every single day. We don't have a second one to go when things go out of control. Romanians say that USA is the country of all good possibilities, and I say that Romania is the country of all the bad things which in other countries are impossible. The government is very corrupt and it doesn't care about the needs of the people who are poor or living on the brink of poverty and so on. The woods are disappearing so fast and nobody cares. It seems that the people who are running our government, and those who were before the actual ones, for 30 years now, they didn't breathe oxygen, just money. I could say that the violence against domestic and wild animals has grown alarming because there is no rigid law, and the thinking is primitive. As a person who wants more sustenability and less cruelty, so a balance, all of this depresses me. It's sad because the path we had chosen for almost 2 centuries since industrialization it is so wrong now. We should no longer act as the masters of the planet or the privileged ones, exploiting and destroying every species cuz in the end everything will come back to us tenfold. The root of all misdoings and disrespect showed to nature comes from our loss of connection with nature, which is essential if we want to keep a healthy balance.
@@Binnie_303 Google Americans hunting coyotes, there is a reward for the most anyone can kill. And I do believe you have enclosures where you can 'hunt'..or shoot until the animals realise they are trapped and give up trying to flee. Americans have no welfare laws for rodents in labs. Importing monkeys from the wild for testing. Factory farming and boiling chickens and pigs alive when the farmers can't be arsed to kill them humanely. Americans have absolutely nothing to be proud of.
