The Darkling Thrush: A Harbinger
Winter Solstice has come and gone and we’re now well into mid January in the Northern Hemisphere. The sense of bone dead winter seems unchanging – and then suddenly I realise that there’s been a shift. Out on my allotment towards dusk on a frozen winter’s day to put out food for the wild birds, I feel a distinct change in the quality of light. The light lingers longer and there starts to be a twilight and a dusk again after the weeks of mid winter’s abrupt darkness.