The mellow babble of the Hedge Chanter
There’s a Dunnock in the undergrowth. It looks so beautiful in this light.
![Dunnock at Stover - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Stover-The-Hall-of-Einar-5638-725x483.jpg)
It’s too busy searching for food amongst the russet leaves to give a performance of its mellow babble.
![Dunnock at Stover - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Stover-The-Hall-of-Einar-5625-725x483.jpg)
“Call me Winter Nightingale, Accentor of the Hedge, Shuffle-Wing and the Hedge Chanter of Mellow Babble”, I hear it say, as it hops away.