The RSPB, as concerned with skylarks as it is with the whole ecology of the area, has declared itself against the proposal, while local opposition has been led by Anthony Henman, father of tennis player Tim.
Illustration of a skylark.
The famous French (Canadian) children's song Alouette, meaning skylark, describes the step-by-step plucking of a skylark.
Above his head a skylark rose into the vast Norfolk sky to pour and pelt music.
Skylarking - XTC As recommended by: Vibedoctor A title gleaned from Percy Bysshe Shelley's To a Skylark, and music heavily influenced by the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Kinks, XTC's 1986 Skylarking was produced by Todd Rundgren.
Click here to watch skylark song video Poets and composers have long been mesmerised by the skylark's song, including Shelley, whose Ode to a Skylark opens with the unforgettable pronouncement: "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Byron stayed there briefly, and Shelley wrote "To a Skylark" there.
The song of a skylark is the sound of summer in the British countryside.
It looks like a sparrow on steroids, or a skylark that needs to go on a diet.
The song of a skylark mingles with the clink of glasses from the small bodega by the winery.
And the skylark, whose twittering has provided the soundtrack to millions of countryside walks and inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley, in Ode to a Skylark, to praise its "profuse strains of unpremeditated art", is struggling and could soon vanish from many areas.
