Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Please tell me this isn't possible....

PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
in The potting shed

I have been working on the far side of my garden today, along the hedge. As I worked, I became aware of twittering, as of a small flock of birds. It was quite pleasant, although I couldn't SEE any birds of the right sort. Oddly, it went on and on. Sometimes there was a pause, then off it would go again. It became unnaturally repetitious: same birds, same place, same pattern of song.

 I think it was a recording of some sort, playing on a loop. My neighbours down there do favour plastic animals (sometimes knocked over by real foxes and badgers).Could it possibly be the case that real birdsong is being replaced by a virtual one? Am I losing the plot?

«134

Posts

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There's a very plastic and concrete "sculpture" garden round the corner from here but they also have song birds in a couple of large aviaries.  No accounting for taste.

    When Geoff Hamilton made his Paradise Gardens series there was a chap in Chelsea (I think) who'd made the most amazing roof garden but then played sound tracks of birdsong from his country origins while he sat up there admiring his blooms. 

    On the other hand, I've just been out plantig garlc and there's a great deal of song and twittering and fluttering going on, but not repetitive.  I think I may be being adopted by a robin.   First time in 27 years of gardening with continental birds.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • MarygoldMarygold Posts: 332
    When I started reading your post, I thought you were going to say it was a nest of young birds!
    Sparrows often congregate together in bushes and "chatter" a lot but if it is the same sequence repeated at regular intervals, it's probably a recording. One of our garden centres does this around their bird food section, which is semi outdoors. It fools a lot of people!
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Posy said:


     I think it was a recording of some sort, playing on a loop. My neighbours down there do favour plastic animals (sometimes knocked over by real foxes and badgers).Could it possibly be the case that real birdsong is being replaced by a virtual one? Am I losing the plot?

    no, I think your neighbours have lost the plot :)  


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    nutcutlet said:


    no, I think your neighbours have lost the plot :)  
     :D 
    I pass a garden up in the north east when I head that way to walk, which has the most fabulous 'collection' in the front garden - horses, coos, sheep -  the lot.
    Life size as well.. :D
    Makes me hoot every time I go by.
    I'm always meaning to take a photo, but I'm scared they see me... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited November 2018
    Are you on friendly terms with your neighbours @Posy ? You could casually mention how you have heard more birds than usual for this time of year and see if they say anything.
    If they say " Oh yes, that's our birdsong recording on a constant loop", l despair.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited November 2018
    They do that on Gardeners world,  lovely birdsong, in a loop. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I shall have to ask, shan't I! I wonder where you buy life-sized model farm animals. It's not something I have considered before but it would be one up on the false birds... Do they moo and baa? The mind boggles.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Maybe here, Posy  :D

    http://www.hornimports.com/life-size-model-cows
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Christmas sorted? There's so much I don't know! Thank you FG. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Posy said:
    Christmas sorted? There's so much I don't know! Thank you FG. 
     :D 
    I must try and get a pic of that garden next time I'm up that way. It's not big, and the whole garden is full of them. I assume there must be a reason, but I'm damned if I can think of one!  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sign In or Register to comment.