Posts Tagged ‘ birds ’

Art on the busses

Fancy confusing “chaps playing loud hip-hop on their mobiles on buses”? Alicja Rogalska (who you may remember was one of the people on 11-11-11) has a proposition: All I’d like to ask you to do is to play some rural sounds (birdsongs, dogs barking, etc.) on your mobile whilst on board a bus. Like a flashmob – everybody meets at a bus stop, we all get on a bus (top deck) and play a certain sound at a certain time (yet to be decided). The sounds will be available on the internet to download onto your mobile. All sounds are short (25secs to 1 minute) and designed to create curiosity and amusement amongst fellow passengers rather than  annoyance. She’s got the sounds available for download and will even spring for your fares. Full details here, and you can contact Alicja through her website.

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A twitcher’s history of Perry Barr

Superbly evocative nostalgia, for me anyway I remember this bird well, from Andy Mabbett: As a child, I was often taken to our local shopping centre in Perry Barr, north Birmingham (since replaced by a tin shed with pretensions of being a mall) to see a Mynah bird (Acridotheres tristis). It resided in what I now realise was a ridiculously small cage, on the counter of a petshop, and would delight all and sundry by asking repeatedly, “Where’s George?”, wolf whistling, or performing another of its many acts of mimicry.

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