2.Mistle Thrush with worm

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Comment by Simon Randolph on May 23, 2013 at 18:42

Lovely photo Elaine.

Comment by Des Bowring on May 11, 2013 at 17:27

No Jo, Browning is describing a Song Thrush which repeats its notes.

Cecil Day Lewis writes about the Mistle Thrush here, using its country name:

As storm-cocks sing,

Flinging their natural answer in the wind's teeth,

And care not if it is waste of breath

Or birth-carol of spring

Comment by Jo Corke on May 10, 2013 at 18:17

is that the same bird as in R Browning's poem?

That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!