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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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
Nurse Ratched
7:59 Sat Jun 6
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Oops! Just thought of a hideous animal noise: the yapping of small dogs.
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Gavros
8:00 Sat Jun 6
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Used to have one living in a tree in my back garden, so was often woken by it. Not been tree for years, but this year have started to ear it again. A majestical thing.
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Far Cough
8:01 Sat Jun 6
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I'm not a twitcher by any means, so I was trying to figure out what that birdsong was in the early morning, especially when no other fucker is up yet and making a noise
Blackbird it is then, thanks Nurse
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Nicey
8:04 Sat Jun 6
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Bloody blackbirds coming over here and nicking our bird songs!
In my day it was all white birds in London and you could leave your back door open for the Krays to come round and have a cup of rosie lea with your dear old Ma whilst the kids played on bombsites without fear of injury.
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zebthecat
8:05 Sat Jun 6
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Surrounded by them here. Love their song contest at dusk.
Mind you, the owls win the stamina test.
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Nurse Ratched
8:08 Sat Jun 6
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Fire burning twigs. Another lovely sound.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:11 Sat Jun 6
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Good call, Nurse. It is very characteristic to the individual bird as well. We had one that did an old man's bluesy warble at college digs.
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ted fenton
8:12 Sat Jun 6
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Love the sound of the male Blackbird our one sings at various times of the day to deter other Blackbirds from its territory.
They are also superb mimics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KifpQe02HEE
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the exile
8:12 Sat Jun 6
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The blackbird does indeed have one of the most beautiful songs, but their clucking alarm call is bloody annoying. I remember when I was a teenager trying to revise for exams there was a particularly highly-strung blackbird that used to take delight in distracting me at any opportunity. I had a row of golf balls on the windowsill to throw at it.
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bruuuno
8:14 Sat Jun 6
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There used to be a right cunt of one that spent an entire summer right outside my window and he fucking sung from sun up to
Sun down, pretty much non stop. I marvelled at how he stayed alive because all he did was sing. Never realised until then that animals can be mentally ill just like humans.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
8:14 Sat Jun 6
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Nicey 8:04 Sat Jun 6
That's actually funny.
Are you quite well?
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Nurse Ratched
8:15 Sat Jun 6
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I also take back what I said about small dog/terrier yaps being part of the non-human animal world noise, because if it wasn't for human there would be no horrible terriers, and dogs would have less irritating barks. So terriers and small dogs yapping is YOUR fault, too.
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Sniper
8:20 Sat Jun 6
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Do you mean the song by the wurzels?
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ted fenton
8:20 Sat Jun 6
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Wood pigeons are my hate I could kill the f#cking lot.
Boring fat shits that have a mong song.
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Nurse Ratched
8:22 Sat Jun 6
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I sang backing vocals for the Wurzels. I am not kidding.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:25 Sat Jun 6
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I love the way magpies rattle the shit out of mammalian predictors five times their size.
My female cat brought home a rat that must have weighed in at a pound the other day. Won't ever mix it with a magpie though.
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Nurse Ratched
8:27 Sat Jun 6
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Ted, I adore wood pigeons. They are the gentlemen of the garden, having a harmless pootle about. I like their hooting call.
But my favourite thing about wood pigeons is their name. The irony of being called 'wood' pigeons when they are so spectacularly rubbish at living in trees. They are so clumsy in their element. First, they crash-land into trees, making the most enormous inept job of it, they when they move around they are really noisy and send twigs dropping to the ground. The way they burst out of a tree when taking off is equally inelegant.
Never fails to make me smile.
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Sniper
8:27 Sat Jun 6
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No way nurse!!! So you do mean where be that blackbird to then?!
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Nurse Ratched
8:29 Sat Jun 6
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No. I won't say which record it was, but it isn't a well known one, anyway. Didn't sell.
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Sniper
8:32 Sat Jun 6
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I live in bristol, I'm certain there's a hardcore contingent who buy 100 copies of all their albums!
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