A Windy Holbrook Creek, Wednesday 17th April 2024

Holbrook Creek sits within the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape (formerly called an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The landscape is predominantly ancient estate farmlands, with salt marshes and intertidal mudflats. The mudflats are an important winter feeding area for estuary birds, wild fowl and waders. This recording was made on a particularly windy Wednesday afternoon whilst testing my equipment for an upcoming dawn chorus broadcast. I sat upon one of the many fallen trees that, thanks to coastal erosion, now haunt the shorline. From the tree I was able to see across the river into Essex, and occasionally thought I could see the sunlight glinting on Grayson Perry's 'House for Essex'. This episode was made possible through funding from Arts Council England through their Developing Your Creative Practice grant. [This field recording was recorded to showcase the natural sounds heard in a rural setting. It features no human voices. No monies will be made from the recording. Please contact me if you have any concerns]