By Melissa Dennison
Bradford, Yorkshire, England
I am standing with my pen poised to record but it’s so quiet and still. It’s often like this, a waiting game. The wait is becoming longer and longer. I am taking part in a citizen science project to document blackbird sightings. Climate change can seem like an abstraction or something that effects people a long way off, on the other side of the world, but it’s not, it’s right here on our doorstep.
in the trees
only the sound
of the wind
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