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Tony Broke
25 May 14 12:59
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I don't see many, when I had the birdfeeder out I saw a few long-tailed tits, and i believe, a blackcap, apart from that, and living in this dire town, only the likes of blackbirds, the occasional magpie, dove etc. No 'up up into the sky' skylarks here, im afraid.
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Report Tony Broke • May 25, 2014 1:02 PM BST
Up with me! up with me into the clouds!
      For thy song, Lark, is strong;
Up with me, up with me into the clouds!
            Singing, singing,
With clouds and sky about thee ringing,
      Lift me, guide me till I find
That spot which seems so to thy mind!

I have walked through wildernesses dreary
And to-day my heart is weary;
Had I now the wings of a Faery,
Up to thee would I fly.
There is madness about thee, and joy divine
In that song of thine;
Lift me, guide me high and high
To thy banqueting-place in the sky.

            Joyous as morning
Thou art laughing and scorning;
Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest,
And, though little troubled with sloth,
Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth
To be such a traveller as I.
Happy, happy Liver,
With a soul as strong as a mountain river
Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver,
      Joy and jollity be with us both!

Alas! my journey, rugged and uneven,
Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind;
But hearing thee, or others of thy kind,
As full of gladness and as free of heaven,
I, with my fate contented, will plod on,
And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done.
Report Tony Broke • May 25, 2014 1:03 PM BST
..not that the skylark is a garden bird of course, i just like the poem.
Report call me a taxi • May 25, 2014 1:06 PM BST
Sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes, doves, pigeons, the odd woodpecker and now and again, a magpie.
Had a resident robin for a few years now, but don't see her very often.
Our dog ignores everything except the doves and pigeons, which she chases away.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 25, 2014 1:29 PM BST
I love the song of the skylark. I'm hearing a lot of them this year. A quintessential sound of the English Summer.
We've also got a lot of house sparrows around at the moment which is nice, in fact some are nesting in my roof. Got the usual suspects - blackbirds, song and mistle thrush, dunnock, robin, wren: but we've also got a pair of firecrests regularly turning up along with some green finches. A jay is a regular visitor in the winter but glad he's not around at the moment as he'd scare all the little uns.
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