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The first blackbird of - er - spring
Friday, 5 March 2010 at 06:35
This morning, 5th March - a calm, cold morning with a streak of salmon flesh in the eastern sky - there were the first hesitant notes of the blackbird's spring song. It was almost as if the bird was tentatively trying out its voice. The few notes of partial song lasted for no more than ten seconds, but Turdus merula it most certainly was. This is very late in the year for blackbirds to start singing; they usually begin sometime in February, and usually earlier in the month rather than later.
Overnight temperature was -5C. There's been a very slow and equally hesitant thaw over the past week, but winter hasn't yet relinquished its grip and the local canal is still frozen over.
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