For the best part of a decade, developers have been eying up Lodge Hill in Kent, where more than 100 singing birds are known to live. View image in fullscreen The bushes in Lodge Hill attract nightingales because they contain a variety of habitats. So they’ll fly over, and hear another nightingale sing, and know that means the area is good for nightingales. View image in fullscreen The fact that Lodge Hill has been disturbed by the Ministry of Defence suits the nightingale. So we are really worried.”Of the suggestion Keir Starmer should come and hear the nightingales, Beale says: “It would probably do him some good.”
