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This morning I learn I may have been over pessimistic about the number of Nightingales. On Twitter Mike King @GlosterBirder reports '5 Nightingales this morning at RSPB Highnam Woods'

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But later I learn from Sam the one male is confirmed, and he has mated and so stopped singing at night

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This makes me feel so much better about the fact that the local ones have stopped in the last two nights, I never knew this before!

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Apr 28Liked by Peter Reason

A rare delight! Becoming rarer. Is there a regenerative story that can be sung ?

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Thank you for sharing this experience. It reads like an account of an important moment and ritual for a real history book on the demise of the more-than-human world.

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A beautiful, elegiac piece. Thank you for sharing it.

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Apr 28Liked by Peter Reason

Thank you for writing about this. I had tears in my eyes when you told us about it on Friday.

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How beautiful, and thank you. So glad to see your comment of an hour ago about 5 Nightingales.

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Nothing in life makes me more grateful than that I live in a place where I can open my bedroom window at night and listen to nightingales singing in April and May

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This is an exquisite account, thank you. It captures an important moment - in an intentionally transforming life. From growing up learning ‘about’ the world, to one of communicative experience ‘with’ a world. I understand learn to sing with nightingale as metaphor for moving toward a relational worldview; one that participates in an animate, sentient, living cosmos. Surely a regenerative stance for humanity at the precipice?.

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