Nightingale

A plain brown bird with a pale eyering and rusty-brown tail, best known for its rich, powerful song which can keep people awake when given at night. In areas of overlap, compare with extremely similar Thrush Nightingale; note present species’ unmarked pale underparts, often with a variable buffy wash, as well as its warmer-toned back and brighter rufous tail. Song is extremely variable, and can include whistles, trills, rattles, and warbled phrases; elements often repeated. Calls include a…

Nightingale, Paxton Pits NR, 26th April 2010 © Garth Peacock A total of 11 singing males seen or heard today just from the car park to Kingfisher hide.

A Legendary Bird (Thorn Birds) There's a story... an old Celtic legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to out-sing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for…

Inscription: Printed text along lower edge of card: Nightingale.Printed text on verso of card: This card is one of a/ set of FIFTY "ZOO"/ cards, as follows:[list of birds included in set]/ One of the above cards is wrap-/ped with every ZOO caramel

I can't descibe my luck. During previous spring seasons I could only hear but not see Nightingales. It is by far the most ultimate song bird of all Western European birds! I discovered 3 Nightingales singing thier opera just next to a busy path into the dunes. They are not shy and I captured this one full frame! This is absolutely nature at it's best!

It’s 200 years since Keats penned ‘Ode to a Nightningale’, but this otherwise drab bird’s rich, sorrowful song is worth listening out for says John Lewis-Stempel.

Nightingale drawing

Love hurts

These six delightful and colorful images of different Types of Birds include the Orchard Oriole, the Bunting, the Bullfinch, and the Rose Breasted Grosbeak.

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I’ve been experimenting with Art Journaling recently. I’ll be sharing some of my entries in the hope they can inspire you to take up this rewarding activity. For more on this see: https://www.annamasonart.com/how-to-keep-an-art-journal/⁠ .⁠ May 2020: The Bittersweet Song of the Nightingale⁠

Nursing Tattoo? Nightingale

Basil Ede (1931— 2016) was an English wildlife artist specialising in avian portraiture, noted for the ornithological precision of his paintings. The first one-man exhibition of Basil Ede's work was held at the Rowland Ward Gallery in London in 1958. Further one man exhibitions followed at London's Tryon Gallery in 1960 and 1962. In 1964, Ede became the first living artist to be honoured with a one-man show at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. The event was sponsored by…

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Nightingale

Recto Bird singing on a branch among leaves silhouetted against the moon: final finished composition Colour woodcut reproduced by permission of the artist's estate. © The Trustees of the British Museum