Sound Escape 298. Enjoy the rare song of the quail in a Dorset wheat field

In the heat of high summer, away from the dark, dank of late autumn, we rest on a gate beside a wheat field in Dorset. Here, among the thick of the sun-scorched stalks, slinks a gamebird no bigger than a mistle thrush. We can’t see it, but we can hear it. The curious, insect-like call of a quail.

BBC Countryfile Magazine's Plodcast Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.

Recorded by Kevin Parr and introduced by Hannah Tribe. Image by Getty

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