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Category: SUNNY AND BRIGHT Music

Right...

If apocalyptic banging hard rave music or complex pianoforte and joyous singing ain't your bag how about birdsong???

Yes, given that I've spent a lot of time on my balcony sorting the garden out this last week, I've mostly been hearing birds and aeroplanes (with music in the background) and I'm very pleased to report the return of a Blackcap to the shit pipe...

Now, I know this might sound like some kind of wierd sex, but what I'm talking about is the residence of a small warbler called the Blackcap that's once again come to brighten up my days...

It's a strange and stone cold fact that I've seen more different species of birds from my window here on Fish Island than at any previous address I've lived at, which since I've habbited some pretty wild and nessy places and Fish Island is in London is difficult to explain...

But ain't that just life....

Anyway, though it's great to see and hear such a bird in town, this years Fish Island bird list looks to be a step down from last years. Yes boss, last year there were both Whitethroats and Blackcaps singing, but this year I've seen or heard nothing of the Whitethroats at all.

Maybe they're saving their entrance for my birthday tomorrow...

I might struggle with people, but I've always got on well with birds..

When i was working at the nuclear power station I had to cycle for half an hour along the sand dunes to get to work and on my birthday that year I not only heard my first (and only) Grasshopper Warbler but was also delighted that my very first sight of the day was of a Great Spotted Woodpecker on the bird feeder outside the window of the caravan...

Birds aren't stupid anyway, and it's not surprising the Whitethroats have done a runner this year. Half way through the last breeding season the rather gormless and banal Thames Water sent some halfmen to fell all the trees the Whitethroats were using...I considered returning to my tree climbing days or burning down their trucks to exact revenge, but have so far decided against it..

And the shit pipe?? Well my flat here on Fish Island looks down onto one of Londons main sewers (of course this is where i get my bad language from - it leaps out and down my throat as i sleep) and atop this is the Greenway and atop that is where the Blackcap sings...

So...here we go with a free download of not only the song of a Blackcap, but also the Whitethroat and the Grasshopper Warbler, as well as a whole bunch of other Thrushes, Warblers and Flycathers....

Now, I'm gonna pump up the volume on the stereo and confuse the real thing...

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	Edi	"I've mostly been hearing birds and aeroplanes (with music in the background)" Reminds me of the "Nightingales and Bombers" 1975 album of Manfred Mann's Earthband. Manfred Mann used an archive tape in the fading of the title track. It was done by a WWII ornythologist recording birds (as you did above) while war planes were flying over London, the sound of engines thereof being heard in the background. Certain species in your recording also remind me of recordings used by Pink Floyd for the intro to "Cyrrus Minor" (on "More" 1969) and in "Grantchester Meadows" (on the studio album of the double, partly live, "Ummagumma" 1969). Posted by Edi on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 00:48 [Remove] [Reply to this]

Paul Giovanni

THIS IS THE SORT OF KNOWLEDGE I LIKE TO SEE.... I'm bowled over and need to research... PG:+)xx Posted by Paul Giovanni on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 00:56 [Remove] [Reply to this]