This evening I heard a blackbird (Turdus merula) sing. Blackbird song is one of my favourite bird songs. I didn't manage to see him and now I worry that my mind was playing tricks on me...
Your mind is safe (for the time being ) Droopy as I'm hearing Blackbirds singing here too despite the weather.
Well Droopy--the blackbirds are not yet singing here. The great and blue tits have weakly begun their mating tones...but not all day every day yet. It's all taking too long this year. I'll bet that you did hear that song though. The merels are beginning to spend more time up in trees here, so I imagine that they will begin their morning and evening choruses soon. Well....my fingers are crossed at any rate.
Thanks eileen, that's a relief! Mg, are you paraphrasing Ernest Hemingway? Sidetracking: We've got snow today.
Droopy, yes, I was paraphrasing Papa Hemingway, who was quoting John Donne. If anyone wants to hear a mockingbird, I have one that I'll gladly ship--he's trying to attract a mate and is imitating everything he's ever heard! Irritating after four or five hours . . . .
We don't have blackbirds that sing, Grackles squawk, .... we have Mourning Doves who quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail....Bring Out Your Dead, Bring Out Your Dead. I hear that all day everyday. Guess I had better start walking in a zig-zag path so the guys in the white coats can't catch me.
Sjoerd, I hope your merel will start singing for you soon. It's strange that ours have started and yours haven't. Hm. Mg I've never heard a mocking bird sing. It sounds like fun to me. toni, those people in white coats may bring a big butterfly net along, so I think you ought to run in a zig-zag pattern. That will make them work harder and maybe give up in the end. *nods*
I hope that it will too...but when I went out to the lottie today to dump off some compost, I was sitting in the garden house watching the birds flitting-about and guess what-- it began snowing again! AWKK!
Snow again? Oh dear me! We're back to the cold, dry weather with lots of sunshine again. It feels like Siberia up here.
