Birds immitate mobile phone ring-tones
Today is International Dawn Chorus Day. The Gaurdian newspaper reported that songbirds imitate mobile phone ring-tone back in 2003. Excerpt: “Starlings have begun to imitate the ring tones of mobile...
View Articlehas someone strangled the dawn chorus?
was their compulsive chatter too cheerful to swallow? it drowned the silences in someone’s life that someone, using a taut silk scarf, stopped the air to their songs now their silences float...
View Articleget orf moi land
get orf moi land, or in regionally more accurate terms ‘OI! git orrrf my lahnd with the optional extra ‘OAR isle shoooooot yew” is often creatively used by Bristolians to deal with all sorts of...
View Articlebirdsong addicts
why I love England #11: birdsong Sound engineers play birdsong on a dis-used radio channel. The channel became very popular. People were OUTRAGED when the birdsong channel was closed down. I...
View Articleintroducing Dawn Chorus
Summer morning’s in Sheepwash start with the cheerful hubbub of the local dawn chorus. Turning-over in the thick, crisp, white, ironed sheets and taking a deep breath through my downy pillow is like a...
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