They started singing from February and have never stopped ever since!
Am talking about the oriental magpie robins. They make my days, days of joy..singing incessantly. I have never come across such a musical treat from birds. They keep changing their tunes.They sit on the roof tops, my neighbour’s TV antenna, among the mango tree foliage, rose apple tree, on the compound wall, the frangipani boughs. After coming to Cambodia often I wonder if Emily Dickinson would have ever visited this place!! Many of her lines on Nature and the flora and fauna melt so well with the sights and sounds around me!
The Robin is the One That interrupt the Morn With hurried—few—express Reports When March is scarcely on—
The Robin is the One
That overflow the Noon
With her cherubic quantity—
An April but begun—
Emily Dickinson
Oriental Magpie Robin singing
”write me how many notes there be in the new robin’s ecstasy Among the astonished boughs”
It’s interesting see their gimmicks during courting time. The male stoops and hops and moves fast towards his lady love to woo her. There’s always a rival in the background. This drama usually takes place on the roof tops of the houses across our lane.
He stoops to conquer 🙂
Shelley’s and Keats’ Skylark and Nightingale come alive when I hear these small birds singing sweetly.
It’s a full throated singing at times and at times a mix of cooing-cajoling-coaxing..sometimes they whisper without knowing that their too musical voice is carried by the jealous winds to the nearby eaves droppers. These happy souls fill my dull and dreary afternoons with sound of music.
Bless you my feathered friends! May your tribe increase!
Lovely!I could picture them in my mind…you have turned me into a lover of nature my friend💜
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Thank you friend… You made my day! ( just like the robin’s melodies)
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