This morning began with the song of a Robin \u2013 a sure sign of spring and a good wake-up call in more ways than one. <\/p>\n
Wake up, wake up you sleepy head, Not only was it a good message for me \u2013 because I\u2019ve been really lazy the past few days \u2013 but the verse from the old, well-known song also sounds a lot like the phrases of the Robin\u2019s song itself, usually described as something like cheer-up, cheer-up, cheerily cheer-up cheerio<\/span>. I lay in bed listening to it this morning for a while, and listened again off and on all day as different Robins sang, each one with a slightly different variation on the general theme. A Robin\u2019s song is one of the most familiar, and yet, as Donald Kroodsma eloquently describes in The Singing Life of Birds<\/span>, when you really listen to it closely, it\u2019s a song of fascinating complexity and many unexplored strains. \u201cSo familiar is this robin, yet we hardly know him,\u201d Kroodsma says. \u201cRobins have much they can teach us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLearn to recognize the robin\u2019s song,\u201d he continues, \u201cand you\u2019ve got the standard for the songs of other birds, too. . . . Sitting in a lawn chair and listening to robins for a few hours prepares one for sparrows and starlings and wrens and flycatchers and warblers and thrushes and jays and goldfinches and blackbirds \u2013 indeed, almost anything that other birds may have to offer. Begin by listening to the robin, and realize then how easily one hears how all the others sing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning began with the song of a Robin \u2013 a sure sign of spring and a good wake-up call in more ways than one. Wake up, wake up you sleepy head,Get up, get up, get out of bed,Cheer up, cheer up, the sun is red . . . Not only was it a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Get up, get up, get out of bed,
Cheer up, cheer up, the sun is red . . .<\/span> <\/p>\n