Song Thrush Singing by durleybeachbum
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In my garden. He starts about 4 am and keeps it up till dusk. I'm not sure how he finds time to eat !
"As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;.."
(maybe W Shakespeare (Attribt.) But he usually wrote in iambic pentameter and not in this form.)
Anyway, I am thrilled at the performance of my little TZ camera for this is handheld on full zoom and then cropped to half the original size.
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Comments (8)
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. For those that want to hear his beautiful voice i share this link. Song Thrush God bless.
jendellas
Beautiful.
Katraz
Great shot Andrea
wysiwig
Outstanding captures. Perhaps he is calling for a mate?
anahata.c
Mark could be right: Bird songs call for mates, give shout-outs about food (prey), warnings to the flock; and some of them (you probably know all this) are strictly sexual songs. I was stunned when I first studied bird song to find that some of those gorgeous songs are essentially male birds shouting, to females, "heyyyyyy, check--it---out!!!!" (They're struttin' their stuff.) And Kristo gave you a link to the thrush's song---try notating that! We had to do that for 2 semesters, and it was mind-bending how complex some of those songs were. We even were taught to 'warble'---and we don't have the vocal chords for it...
Anyway: A fine shot of the thrush jutting its head heavenwards in song. And the contrasting angle of the wood he's standing on makes a fine shot. Love the deep bokeh behind him. Lovely shot, Andrea. I like all these bird shots of late.
As for the poem, yeah, it could-or-could-not be Shakespeare. It's from the Passionate Pilgrim, which you probably know; and yeah, some sections are likely Shakespeare's, and some not, and I don't remember which was which. As for the meter, Shakespeare did use other meter in his songs (as this is a song). (You remember those gorgeous songs in his plays---esp his comedies---where he breaks the meter and goes for' simple': "With a hey ho, the wind and the rain...the rain it raineth every day..." ((all about the passage of time)) The poem's sweet, whoever wrote it...)
Glendaw
I believe the photographer had a lot to do with the pictures. Smiles.
Awesome macro shots Andrea.
Oh my lord four am is a tad early for me however the robins are chirping at this gawdly hour as well.
xoxo
anitalee
Excellent!
Faemike55
wonderful capture and great lesson