tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post6208069452003817212..comments2024-03-27T19:59:10.159+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-59668224703502573102015-11-07T00:25:13.432+00:002015-11-07T00:25:13.432+00:00I saw them last on 23 September.I saw them last on 23 September.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-66975306147441961272015-11-07T00:24:03.451+00:002015-11-07T00:24:03.451+00:00Thanks for the information. The Black Swan's t...Thanks for the information. The Black Swan's two-note call has a descending pitch, 'ee-oo', with the two notes about a third apart. It isn't very loud.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-63257427643821341572015-11-06T22:37:44.285+00:002015-11-06T22:37:44.285+00:00Hi Ralph
Out of curiosity, although I know the Ree...Hi Ralph<br />Out of curiosity, although I know the Reed Warblers would have left a while ago, but when did you last stop seeing them?<br />ArjunArjun Duttahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428937191960058515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-43478159314751726152015-11-06T19:45:55.991+00:002015-11-06T19:45:55.991+00:00W.G. Arnott, in his classic “Swan Songs” (http://w...W.G. Arnott, in his classic “Swan Songs” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/642700), writes, “The whooper swan … calls both on land and in flight with a long bugle-like note, the second syllable higher pitched than the first, repeated several times in succession.” Is what you hear, Ralph, from Mr Black a kissing cousin of that? Arnott goes on to say, “The musicality of this note is a matter of opinion; one authority has compared it to ‘silver bells’, another to the sound of “a clarionet when blown by a novice in music’, in a way bracketing, one might say, your own judgment of ‘rather musical’.<br /><br />And thank you for your most wonderful blog! <br /><br />-Charles Young<br /><br /><br />Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08146122584507210594noreply@blogger.com