I used to wonder why “our” blackbird (Letters, 6 July) invariably began his morning recital with a succession of ascending arpeggiated major triads – until I remembered that this was the way I usually started my trombone warm-up exercises of an early evening before a gig.
Robin Dow
Sheffield
• Last year we had a blackbird who obviously knew us too well. He sang the opening bars of “Barwick Green – the Archers theme tune – perfectly.
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria
• For a few years a blackbird used to wish everyone in earshot of our garden a Happy Birthday, every day, all day – until presumably, the day of its own demise.
Dave Headey
Faringdon, Oxfordshire
• What a surprise to read Paul Scott’s letter about a bird in his garden singing My Blue Heaven (4 July). A bird clearly sang the first five notes of that song most summer days in my large, overgrown garden in Walsall in 1978.
Lin Cartwright
Bingley, West Yorkshire
