On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:12:20 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

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from "Nick Wagg" contains these words:

Does anyone know of a disc of British bird song? Not one
of those with musical background - or dreadful shrieking choir -
but genuine, honest to goodness birds singing their hearts out.

IIRC, the RSPB web site has some for sale.

I have one recorded by Ludwig Koch, but it's not for sale.

For sound samples try here
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wildex.html


Despite having two cats, we have the real thing in our garden, perhaps
because we don't have Franz's music blaring over the wall :-)

Incidentally, I noticed that there were no sparrows here, at least a
year before I saw reports about their absence in the UK. They didn't
slowly decline, one year there were lots and the next they had all
gone. We have a sparrow that feeds in our garden at the moment, their
place has been taken by finches and tits.


And it is unlikely to be in the current releases. You could google for
one though.

What about Percy wotshis names bird imitations?

Long ago I went to a small village beer festival in Bavaria, in the
gents was an obese Bavarian in lederhosen standing in a stall doing
really good bird imitations, I reported this to the friends I was
with. One went to see for himself, he reported that the Bavarian was
still there but was doing good steam engine imitations. About half an
hour later, the Bavarian emerged from the bogs and climbed onto the
stage, where he did a performance of bird and steam engine imitations.