Birds at Springtime
I connect the birds singing with happy moments in my childhood. Springtime and playing outside. (I have a post on this on my Danish blog, which can be Google translated.)
In Denmark, our spring comes slowly so that there is time to enjoy each kind of spring flower while the bird singing increase until about Midsummer where it sadly stops.
As a child, I only recognised a few by name but loved to hear them as a background sound while playing.
My husband always wanted to know about plants and birds. His school teacher was not a very engaged kind of teacher, and my husband had to learn “everything” after he left school ending up as a scientist in animal nutrition. When Henry wants to know something he checks the facts very thoroughly.
Like a real ornithologist, he takes pictures and checks their singing on a CD with birds singing. That’s the way I have learnt to know the birds too. He did the big job, and I just received and remembered the result. Once you learn it you remember.
God was full of humour when He created the birds. Those who sing most beautiful are very modest looking. Some are very hard to find as they sit high up in the trees and look like a small piece of wood. Some are funny with little hats on or look like monks.
The Jay who “plants” the forest by dropping seeds here and there
Photo by Erik Borch
The jay looks so beautiful but has a horrible sound and flies only short distances. Some birds are always seen in big flocks and others you just see alone like the little wren or Robin. I still wonder where the spouse is?
Some of the common birds we have in our gardens in Denmark
If you would like to hear the birds they are here:
The Monk ( Sylvia atricapilla) I couldn’t find the English word for the bird. My favourite songbird i is this one and the Robin.
Birds on the fields
we have the Lapwings who fly in beautiful formations. They are not singing but making sounds.
The Lark’s singing non stop from early morning till sunset.
Categories: Nature
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We are fortunate to have a pair of robins and a pair of wrens in our garden. I sit outside and listen to them singing to each other. We also have blackbirds nesting, plus a group of about 7 goldfinches that regularly visit our trees. I love watching them, but the dawn chorus is so loud and starts so early – when it’s still dark – that we have to go to bed early or we don’t get enough sleep!
Lovely photos 👏🏻🐦
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So true it’s a whole live morning concert here too and the early morning light makes it so much easier to get up
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So beautiful little joys of God’s love showered on these angels. Beautiful pics simply wonderful
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Yes they are so sweet and different and not caring for food tomorrow
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Yes absolutely.
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Beautiful =)
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Thank you for commenting ❤ I just saw your beautiful Monet Giverny pictures. I wish to go there someday
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such a sweet post-I loved the title and the photos too! happy Spring!
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Lovely! The migrating birds are just starting to return here in Maine. 🙂
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What an encouraging sign og spring to get the birds back. Thank you for your reading and commenting my post
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Such beautiful creatures! 🙂
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Thank you Ann. I was so lucky to be able to use these fine photos. It’s very difficult to take good pictures of birds
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Oh I agree! Birds are so hard to photograph. They can be so photogenic though. 🙂
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Jumped over from the Senior Salon
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I am sure that spring is *finally* on the way when the posts about the birds start dotting the blogging landscape. The post was beautifully written and the photos were gorgeous, but I really appreciated the links to the birdsongs. Thank you especially for setting them to open in a new tab — I am listening to the Robin as I type (with the sounds of a storm in the background). LOVELY – and so centering. Thank you for sharing.
xx,
mgh
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You are so very kind to tell me all this so vividly. I appreciate your lovely comments and involvement
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I wanted you to know how much I truly appreciated your sharing of this unique post.
I know it must have taken quite a bit of time to insert the links and find translations for bird names, and I wanted you to know that somebody clicked them and really enjoyed them. I am always please when folks do that for me – so I guess I’m “paying it forward” – lol
xx,
mgh
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PS. I like the BlueJay, btw. He sounds like he’s laughing, and it makes me laugh too.
xx,
mgh
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Well I just had some fun! I opened several tabs and was surrounded by birds of all types, singing merrily, “Spring is here!”
xx,
mgh
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How funny. That’s what they do in real nature 😀
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I know – that’s what made me think of it. It was like being in an enchanted forest in the middle of the night. 🙂
xx,
mgh
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