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Birding by ear

Visit your sit spot and close your eyes, focusing your hearing on one bird song or call within the soundscape.

Owl eyes

Imagine you are an owl and fix your eyes on a spot straight ahead in the distance.

A metre square

Take a natural frame measuring about one metre square and slowly, quietly approach a patch of ground you would like to explore, such as a lawn, meadow or woodland leaf litter.

Night world

Invite the group on a night walk to an open clearing, and ask everyone to sit quietly once there.

Soundscape

During your day, stop and listen using your deer ears.

Badger nose

Set up a five to six metre scent trail using wild leaves or essential oils, placing a few drops on trees and stones at nose level, ideally in a light breeze, marking every other tree.

Who’s watching us?

Before the session, secretly hide a small clay or carved wooden mouse somewhere partly visible from where the group will sit.

Blindfold training

At home, place a few objects around a room and, wearing a blindfold, try to navigate towards each one using sound alone, such as a ticking clock or the hum of a fridge.

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