On Sat, 30 May 2009, June Hughes wrote
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Des Higgins writes
On May 30, 6:03*am, June Hughes
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In message , wafflycat
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On May 29, 8:54 am, "wafflycat"
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Up and at those gardens! It's a lovely sunny morning - already
*warm* Plants
fed & watered already. Now I can have a cuppa and breakfast. Always the
same - animals & plants seen to before self of a morning.

You sound a bit self righteous to me.
Do it by all means but don't brag about something that *is entirely
normal.
You apperar to have been overcome by a beautiful morning. Natural I
suppose, but a bit nauseating in my opinion.

Tony Bull
www.caterpillarfountain.co.uk

You need to take that lemon out of your mouth, it's making you very
sour indeed. Still you haven't put me off the joy of another morning
watching the sunrise and listening to the birdsong.

Good morning. *I've been up for around an hour but am not averse to
going back to bed. *It's a lovely sunny day here in North London.
However, there's a very noisy little bird in our garden this morning -
singing in triplets a third apart and I don't know what it is. *Does
anyone have any idea, please? Notes are C-C-A and it repeats them about
5 times before beginning again. *Off for a cup of tea

A minor third? Maybe its a mynah bird?

Sorry to reply twice. I was wrong, it is a major third (C-C-A flat).
I think it was a great tit. (No rude comments please

We have those, and once you've noticed them they are indeed horribly
persistent. We have loads of squawking parakeets and also crows (they
mob each other occasionally). There are several blackbirds who spend a
lot of time shouting 'birdy-birdy chackchackchack'. The worst offender,
though, is a chaffinch, where the trill in the middle of the song is
always a different length and you end up having to listen until it
reaches that silly whistle at the end.

By the way, does anyone remember the Trimphone Bird? We had a trimphone
in the dear dead seventies, and a bird that imitated it precisely, I
think it did it on purpose to see us pant from the back of the garden
into the house. Now I've noticed Car Alarm Bird, whose call starts with
a kind of sirening exactly like our neighbour's car alarm. This is no
fun at 6 in the morning.

--
Kate B

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