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Nurse Ratched 7:56 Sat Jun 6
Blackbird song
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No, not the Beatles. Not Beyonce either.
The exquisite song of the common blackbird. There is a sample on the link below
http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-108-song-of-the-blackbird
For most of today I have been swooning over the singing of these little darlings, drifting through the open window of my room. I live on a housing estate in horrifically overpopulated London, so the birdsong has had to compete with a cacophony of ugly human-made noise - children screaming, people talking in dozens of different languages as they walk past, each language as ugly as the previous one (except the snippet of what I am pretty confident.was Lingala, that's a beautiful language) petrol strimmers, emergency sirens wailing, doors slamming and worst of all, constant vehicle engine noise.
It is only stuff like blackbird song that keeps me from going insane. Hell really is other people, and right now I cannot think of a single sound produced by the non-human animal and natural world that is not either utterly beautiful or at least, interesting. Raindrops through leaves, waves crashing onto shore, fuckstruck crickets chaffing their legs, you name it - all lovely.
What sounds do you hideously noisy humans enjoy?
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claret50
8:35 Mon Jun 8
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Magpies = the reason why someone invented the shotgun, fucking vile winged creatures.
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1985
8:23 Mon Jun 8
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I just had the delight of being woken by the wonderful sound of the 2009 Dennis 6x4 with 30 / 70 Body and zoeller Bin Lift refuge truck.
"Attention, This vehicle is reversing. beep bop beep.... Attention, This vehicle is reversing. beep bop beep...."
I didn't really want a lie-in on my day off, not at all. Joyous.
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lowermarshhammer
6:49 Sun Jun 7
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One of the worst natural noises has to be fucking foxes. Uneducated townies call plod thinking a rape is happening.
Not as bad as this retard though:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TI1VpwTEaA
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lowermarshhammer
6:31 Sun Jun 7
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There are so called birds of paradise with duller plumage than that of an iridescent magpie.
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lowermarshhammer
6:28 Sun Jun 7
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Blackbird song, when they've mastered the art, is superb. Their startling alarm call is special too.
A melancholic robin on a winter's afternoon warms the soul.
This time of year it's all about the screeching of a party of swifts as they barrel roll through the air with their fat gobs wide open.
Skylark is probably my all time favourite sound of the English countryside.
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eswing hammer
5:36 Sun Jun 7
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One of the nicest sounds is bricks going around in a mixer!
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Worst Case Ontario
5:08 Sun Jun 7
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I used to have a few canaries. They had a lovely song, but one or two got too familiar with me and would squawk at me until I gave them honeyed seeds, and only after would they sing nicely.
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Robson
4:58 Sun Jun 7
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Nurse - if you hate people and traffic so much, why the hell do you live in London?
I work in London but have never seen the attraction of living there. I like open space too much.
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WHU(Exeter)
1:36 Sun Jun 7
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Yep, I consider them 'cheeky', as opposed to outright nasty.
Also have a beautiful sheen, when the sun catches them.
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Nurse Ratched
1:34 Sun Jun 7
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Very handsome, too.
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Nurse Ratched
1:34 Sun Jun 7
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I agree, Ex. They are very clever birds.They tease foxes and cats just for a laugh. They're alright by me.
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WHU(Exeter)
1:31 Sun Jun 7
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I'm also a fan of the much maligned magpie.
They get a bad press.
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percyd
12:51 Sun Jun 7
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Here's a song for you Nursey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1pZgrk_WCw
From the aptly titled "I Am A Bird Now" album by my namesake.
Without exception our first morning sounds are birdsong. All sorts but apart from the sparrow none of them likely to be familiar to the English.......barring our hens of course.
Favourite is the Tui.
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Nurse Ratched
12:30 Sun Jun 7
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I saw plenty of grey wagtails skimming along the Thames by the South Bank. This surprised me, because I thought their numbers had declined, so didn't expect to see them in the middle of tourist-choked London.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:25 Sun Jun 7
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ted fenton 12:22 Sun Jun 7
And bread, Ted. Fed!
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:23 Sun Jun 7
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Exeter - they shun the feeder because, being relatively large and clumsy cunts, they can't cling onto it. They have however, in recent years developed a technique whereby they dive bomb the feeder and dislodge a bit of peanut, which they then eat off the ground.
Nonetheless, an excellent choice for best bird, though I might also have considered the wren or kingfisher. Anything but the greedy and vicious robin, in fact.
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ted fenton
12:22 Sun Jun 7
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They love currants raisins etc.,
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WHU(Exeter)
12:19 Sun Jun 7
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They got my vote, (which they'll no doubt be pleased to know), in that favourite bird of Britain thing.
Aside from their beautiful song, also like their independence from the rest of the bird world. We have a feeder in the back garden, which the pair of blackbirds who live nearby mostly shun completely. They just go about their daily business, ignoring the food that's on a plate for them, and the rest of the birds sorting out whose up next in the pecking order.
Put some cake out once and saw the male blackbird going for some scraps of it, that had fallen to the ground - the female was down like a flash, with a 'what are you doing, we're not eating that shit' attitude going on and he went back to looking for grubs.
I like them a lot.
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ManorParkHammer
12:14 Sun Jun 7
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Happened a couple of times, Sold.
Even the rabbits hate the fence rattling cunt.
It is so thick it can only catch moths.
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Northern Sold
12:06 Sun Jun 7
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Set the rabbits on the cat MPH... they can be nasty big toothed fuckers....
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ManorParkHammer
12:05 Sun Jun 7
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Since the bloke upstairs got a cat the birds stay away from the garden.
Fucking hate that cat.
It's retarded as well.
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