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| Song thrush - "car alarm with feathers"? |
A NATIONAL newspaper columnist has blasted the Dawn Chorus as "a raucous cacophony".
In today's edition of The Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon says the sound of birds singing "erupts at ever more obscene hours each morning, seemingly within inches of my bedroom window".
He continues: "I swear the birds never used to be this shrill, this rowdy, this deliriously hysterical."
The columnist singles out one bird - possibly a song thrush - as "particularly ear-splitting".
He writes: "From what I can make out, it is essentially a car alarm with feathers".
Mr Deacon goes on to suggest that the birds are "celebrating our misfortune" over lockdown.
"Maybe my lack of sleep is making me paranoid," he concludes.
* What former Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey said about the song thrush: "Probably if birds were to be regarded as endeavouring to please us by song, the thrush should be put first. His is undoubtedly a major song and can give a very pleasant impression of contentment as well as of exultation."
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