{"id":8505,"date":"2010-01-26T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2010-01-26T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:18:05","slug":"nature-notes-by-penny-royal-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Nature Notes by Penny Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Songthrush<\/p><\/div>\n

In an early spell of sunny weather, spring is getting under way. Dawn and evening chorus are almost full strength, and even from the Village Voice office we heard a chaffinch and a great tit singing outside.
\n    “Here again (she said) is March the third,
\n     And twelve hours singing for the bird,
\n     Twixt dawn and dusk, from half-past six
\n     To half-past six, never unheard.”
\n                 (Edward Thomas “March the Third”)
\nListening to the chorus in Alexandra Park is a treat. There’s a surprising number of thrushes there, each defining his territory with boundaries of song. Seemingly ethereal, beautiful to the ear, but efficient and purposeful, these “pure thrush words” mark out a pattern of boundaries as definite as that on an ordnance survey map. Superimposed above and beneath are territorial boundaries of other species. If it were possible to see it as a visual pattern, it would be extraordinarily complex.
\nCrucial as it is for birds, we humans can enjoy it purely as music, picking out individual singers one at a time or just luxuriating in the crescendo of bird voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an early spell of sunny weather, spring is getting under way. Dawn and evening chorus are almost full strength, and even from the Village Voice office we heard a chaffinch and a great tit singing outside.     “Here again… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[24,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}