Birdsong Bagatelles (Quartet No.5)-Edward Cowie
Kreutzer Quartet (Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde)
Unedited Session Outtakes 23 9 15 St John the Baptist Aldbury
Engineer Jonathan Haskell
Grey Heron
….brancher, crane, diddleton, frank, ern, frog-eater, harn, harnser, harnsey, hegrie, yern, yarn, varn, tammie herl, skiphegrie, ooze bird…
Mute Swan
I will play the swan,
And die in music(Othello, Act 5, Scene 2)
Coot
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.(Tennyson ‘The Brook’)
Mallard
Black-headed Gull
‘one day about AD550 the blackheaded gulls, flying as usual along the coast of Wales, found floating in a Coracle, a human baby a day or two old ….’ (the finding of St Kenneth)
Kingfisher
‘Expect Martin’s summer, halcyon days’ (Henry VI, Act 1, Scene 2)
Wren
…Bobby wren, chitty, crackadee, Cracket, crackeys, crackil, cuddy, cut, cutteley wren, cutty, gilliver wren, guradnan, Jenny, jitty, juggy wren, titmeg, two fingers….
Robin
‘Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren/since o’er shady groves they hover,/and with leaves and flowers do cover/The friendless bodies of dead men’ (John Webster-The White Devil)
Song Thrush
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn,
More coiled steel than living-a poised
Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs
Triggered to stirrings beyond sense – with a start, a bounce, a stab
Over take the instant and drag out some writhing thing … (Ted Hughes, ‘Thrushes’)
Chaffinch
…apple bird, whitewing, binkie, wet chaff, charbob, tree lintie, chay, spink, chink chink, flackie, shelier applie…
Blue Tit
‘Withering things they ackimules: they ought to be kicked to flames.’ (Henry Williamson, ‘Tarka the Otter)
Wood Pigeon
“permitted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) to be ‘killed by authorised persons at all times”
Cuckoo
Green Woodpecker
Bullfinch
Jay
Tawny Owl
Rook
Kestrel
Lapwing
Grey Partridge
The partridge makes no nest but on the ground
Lays many eggs and I have often found
Sixteen or seventeen in a beaten seat
When tracing o’er the fields or weeding wheat
The lay in furrows or an old land rig
Brown as the pheasant only not so big
They’re often found by pasture boys at play
And by the weeders often ta’en away
The boys will often throw the eggs abroad
And stay and play at blind eggs on the road
They lay in any hole without a nest
And oft a horse’s footing pleases best
And there they safely like till weeders come
When boys half fill their hats and take them home (John Clare ‘The Partridge’s Nest’)
Skylark
To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet
Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward
And dare us with his cap like larks. (Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 2)
Magpie
Augurs and understood relations have
By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
The secret’st man of blood. (Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4)
Posted on September 24th, 2015 by Peter Sheppard Skaerved