If it is spring or even winter (from February) and it is early in the
morning or even the late night hours an hour before sunrise the
loneliest thing you will hear from gardens or woods even right in the
city is the song of the Blackbird. It has beautiful very melancholic
song.
On milder February weekend nights, in my native Stockholm years ago, on
my way home alone- very late - from a night on the town with the lads,
one would often hear the blackbirds sing so sad, but reminding one that
it soon would be spring and falling in love with the right girl would be
so much easier than in the winter.
The song of the blackbird, in Sweden at least, is considered as
messenger of the arrival spring.
No blackbirds in Lima, Peru though.
Here we are awoken by the not particularly pretty or sad song of Pacific
(West Peruvian) Dove - and traffic noise of course.
Saludos
Gunnar Engblom
Kolibri Expeditions
Lima
Peru
www.kolibriexpeditions.com
www.birding-peru.com - a website everything about birdwatching in Peru
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De:
En nombre de John Leonard
Enviado el: Lunes, 02 de Febrero de 2004 07:12 p.m.
Para:
CC:
Asunto: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Help wanted from birders with English
backgrounds
Depends where and when in se England. On the coast you might hear
Curlews on
migration in spring or autumn, you might hear breeding Lapwings up on
the
Downs (ie hills), if they still breed there.
However I would guess the most lonely sounding bird would be the
Eurasian
Stone-Curlew, which probably doesn't breed anywhere in se England any
more,
other than the Breckland (nw Suffolk, sw Norfolk).
Corn Buntings have a sad little jangly song, but they have declined too.
Extinction, extinction.
John L
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John Leonard (Dr)
http://www.webone.com.au/~jleonard
PO Box 243, Woden, ACT 2606, Australia
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>From: "Tim Murphy" <>
>To: "Birding-aus" <>
>Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Help wanted from briders with English
backgrounds
>Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:00:35 +1000
>
>My daughter asked this question which I can't answer, Anyone know?
>
>My guess is either a Curlew or a Lapwing?
>
>It is needed for a Film (which one Karen?).
>
>Tim Murphy
>
>
>
>Hello Dad,
>
>Quick question. Do you know a bird in South East England that is
considered
>'lonely' or sounds lonely.
>
>for a track lay in a film. If they get it wrong the twitchers get very
>peeved.
>
>K.
>
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