trees, singing thrushes and a haiku

bare trees -

a mistle thrush sings

from the top branch

If you click on the link on 'mistle thrush' above you'll be taken to the RSPB page for this wonderful bird, where there's a sound file so you can listen to its song. It's one of the birds that will sometimes sing in winter.

Ben Darvill of the British Trust for Ornithology in his talk last week (which I blogged about here) described the mistle thrush as 'miserable thrush' because it always sounds mournful. I prefer to think of it as melancholy, it's a really beautiful song in a minor key.