Surely by now it should be no louder than the seductive murmur of a paintbrush on skirting-board or garden fence, the feathering of a soft broom, the occasional faint squeal of a cloth on clean glass. constant – that is, the workmen, still, after months, making those thunderous noises of drilling and hammering that you associate with the beginnings of a job like that, not the late stages. The weather generally has dried again, with a warm, slightly unhealthy feel to the breeze. The trees in the parks had already been misled into thinking that autumn had arrived. Are birds induced to sing again because the temperament of autumn resembles that of spring?’ Birds here, particularly the bluetits, are certainly singing, though a little warily. hence August is by much the most mute month, the spring, summer, and autumn through. On 2 September 1774, the naturalist Gilbert White observed that: ‘Many birds which become silent about Midsummer reassume their notes again in September as the thrush, blackbird, wood-lark, willow-wren, &c.
(Thomas Fenwick, Late Autumn Landscape: University of Edinburgh)Ī new month, the first of the meteorological autumn.
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