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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	With reference to the squirrels, I find myself approaching something of a dilemma. I'll probably write more about it here [30793] As some of you may know I have been a vegetarian for over thirty years. A major part of my thinking to become a veggie is my belief that [b]all[/b] life is sacred, and as I find myself living in a world/society where I can survive, no not just survive, thrive, without anything having to die in order for me to live, then that is the path for me. I have been involved, albeit on the periphery, in talks about the possibility of a large culling of grey squirrels in some test areas in England and Scotland. I would dearly love to see the red squirrel securely established in our green and pleasant but that is just not going to happen with the grey fellah, and the pox he carries, about. Dilemma, quandary and a perplexing predicament, but I digress. More of that in another time and place. For me one of the many added pleasures of feeding and caring for the birds in our gardens is that they can sometimes choose to nest there too. Today I was up a ladder filling the seed and peanut holders when I noticed hidden amongst the ivy growing on an old pear tree, a doves nest. I had suspected a nest or two was being built there having seen a number of birds carrying twigs back and forth over the past month, but this was the first time I had seen one. Then climbing a little higher I noticed this: [img]http://digitao.co.uk/asylum/dove_eggs.jpg[/img] They have such a hard time these beautiful creatures. I can only hope they can stay safe and survive past fledging, and help where I can. I also have a blackbird or two using the trees in our gardens to enthral us with song, another bonus of >120 peanut butter sandwiches. I have been listening to the blackbird song a lot over the years and noticed how each year they have certain "signature" melodies that change year to year and I think, from area to area. Here is a recording I made a couple of days ago during the birds evening song. It is made up of two separate recordings taken only a few minutes after each other. I have used a little selective noise reduction on part and amplification on most of the rest. Notice if you will, the call at about 20 seconds in, it is repeated at about 25 sec although this part of the recording was made some five minutes later in a separate recording, you can tell by the slight difference in background noise. I am calling this the signature call and you can hear it again in a doublet at around 55 seconds and in the single call at the very end of the recording. Last year the corresponding signature call was slightly different. It sounded very similar to the melody from John Coltrane's "A love Supreme" [url=http://www.humyo.com/F/51231-442077975]blackbird song[/url] What does it all mean? Well, as soon as I know, you will know too For me, it is the sound a intelligent, sentient beings, expressing themselves, communicating and giving voice to the joy of life, of being. This is one of those occasions where it would be nice to embed a flash movie, but instead I'm linking to Humyo where I've stored the file. I could also upload to YouTube and like to there, but I thought this would be the better option. Any thoughts on the birdsong or the means of viewing it would be welcome. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4175]Tao[/url] on 03-26-2009 04:18)[/small] Loading...
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