Nah, Bill. Agreeing with the others that this little gem does nail it, don’t add anything.
Our magpies do not sing, but they make a lot f nice sometimes…
Doug
> On Oct 3, 2018, at 2:01 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks, Sheila, Andrew, Jill and Patrick. I had an earlier stanza about the
> kind of circular singing pattern but I couldn’t nail it so this is the rump
> of that poem. Jill, our blackbirds don’t go for it in the dead of night but
> at dawn we get a lone triller, sometimes a mate too I think. Beatle Paul’s
> song apparently referenced the civil rights movement so it might have been
> a diferent sort of singing in the night. ‘You were only waiting for this
> moment to arise/be free’.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 5:07 pm, Patrick McManus <
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>> cheers Bill morning here but different blackbirds UK
>>
>> liked feeling of just doing!!
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2018 23:45, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> Take the time
>>>
>>> to listen to this bird
>>>
>>> whose only audience
>>>
>>> is morning
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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