Nightingale

Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. (Tomasito photo 2009)

(I don't have any photos of nightingales
and the one that sings around here is shy.)

Another bird that has been making music around here lately is a nightingale.

This very melodious critter starts his or her concert at about two in the morning and continues for an hour or two of solid music.

I don't know if she uses the telephone pole perch the other birds use in the daytime on sings out of one of the nearby treetops. I have never seen the bird--but the music is quite, could I say, professional.

Surely all this music is not necessary for the bird's survival--I can only imagine that he/she just LOVES to sing!

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