The sound inspired Handel's Cuckoo and the Nightingale (YouTube audio), Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (the clarinet in the second movement - thanks wiki), Saint-Saëns' Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods (Youtube audio) and Delius' On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (YouTube audio). No wonder: its two notes form a descending minor third. Two or three weeks from now, you should be hearing it. Round about 14 April. Except you won't.
Young country diary: Helping a butterfly into its new phase of life |
Ottoline
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*Cambridgeshire:* It was nearly ready to fly but it was partly out of its
chrysalis and partly still in it
On Sunday morning, I was pottering in the gard...
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