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‘Our local blackbird sings a striking song imitating ambulance sirens.’ Photograph: Matt Gibson/Getty Images/iStockphoto
‘Our local blackbird sings a striking song imitating ambulance sirens.’ Photograph: Matt Gibson/Getty Images/iStockphoto
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Wed 28 Apr 2021 12.16 EDT
Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 12.46 EDT
Mary Montague (Country Diary, 26 April) beautifully describes a great tit nestling learning to sing in a quieter world last year. Our local blackbird is also likely to have been born last year. He sings a striking song imitating ambulance sirens. He includes the long wail and the short
whaa whaa, and has been known to startle our builders into thinking that an alarm has been set off. His amazing capacity for imitation has captured the spring of 2020.