Recorded by a sound and film crew who are used to capturing the naturalworld for shows like the BBC’s Springwatch and Blue Planet, David’s ‘BirdsongHearing Test’ was filmed at the RSPB’s Franchises Wood in the New Forest fornational hearing loss campaign Love Your Ears Known as ‘The Urban Birder’ because of his interestin connecting people living in cities with the environment though birds, Davidis a regular presenter on Springwatch, The One Show and ITV’s Love Your Weekendwith Alan Titchmarsh. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Halifax Courier, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Hehas been deaf in one ear after catching mumps as a child and now wears a hearingaid, but says he hasn’t always felt comfortable talking about his deafness: “When I was younger, growing up in London, if youcouldn’t hear properly you were presumed to be stupid, so I didn’t tell people.
I’ve been in denial about my hearing loss for most of my life and so haven’tspoken about it much, other than to people close to me.” The dawnchorus is an amazing thing and as a young guy I worried that one day I mightnot be able to hear it because when you hit the big 5-0, and maybe even beforethen, hearing loss can make birdsong harder to hear,especially when it comes to species with a particularly high-pitched or ‘squeaky’ call, like the Goldcrest,Grasshopper Warbler, Long-Tailed Tit or Willow Warbler. Today,aged 59, David wants more people to .