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in their own right. 0ur reporter laura foster has been to hear it for herself. birdsong. you'll always hear a nightingale before you see it. but it could be a while before you spot one. the first sound, usually the beginning of a song, is a kind of a long, continuous tone, and then they go into, like, really fast, so it goes... he whistles. and then "chop, chop, chop, chop". and if you're lucky, you'll get this close. at this time of year, the male nightingale is singing because it's showing off — it wants to find a mate. and it can be as loud as a motorbike engine when it's doing that. now, when it does find a partner, it will quieten down, but it will still pipe up every now and then in order to
what can they do? first advice would be let nature in. so let the stinging nettles grow, let the spiky stuff appear, like the brambles and the dog—rose, all the stuff that us humans really don't like. for good reason — it stings us, it cuts us, it pricks us. actually, nightingales love that. the denser it is, the more you can't see through it, the happier they will be. from the end of next week, the park will be open for guided tours at dusk, when the birds will be at their most vocal. laura foster, bbc news. what a lovely sound. rowers at oxford university will today name one of their boats �*river action' in honour of a campaign group which aims to hold water companies to account for river pollution. it comes amid concern over high levels of e.coli in the river thames during last month's 0xford and cambridge boat races, when one rowerfell ill before the race. now it's time for a look
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