It's Proms season, the time where the worlds classical music community turns its eyes to venues like the Royal Albert Hall to hear some of the world's most awe-inspiring compositions.

Among those being heard this year is Vaughan Williams. His composition "The Lark Ascending" has previously been voted one of the country's favourite classical pieces.

Written on the eve of war in 1914, it's a melodic piece with some serious natural history links too. If you've ever stood near a major airport and watched the planes ascend into the sky, you'll have had a sense of the amazement of one of the skylark's greatest feats. The small, brown bird climbs vertically into the sky: a territorial tactic used by male skylarks to show their strength.

No other British bird is capable of sustaining such a loud and complex song while hovering high above the ground. Even more incredibly, while descending the skylark sings.