At the end of the previous post I put " I still haven't found what I'm looking for" in The Music Spot ... and suggested that it should be a " birder's anthem", a song to sing on the way back from a drastic and deadly DIP. So ... I then thought ...there must be loads of unintentional but luckily appropriate " birder's songs" in the "Pantheon of Pop Music" which could cover most scenarios from the mundane to the fantastic and from the disastrous and to the slightly irksome. So I'm going to find some and put them on here. And any suggestions from you out there would be very welcome... ...either as comment, or email at [email protected] ..and here's a few I've selected already ... #1 Drive all night ... #2 ... The Waiting #3 Eye to the Telescope .. #4 Passenger Seat.. surely he's not really looking up at satellites and shooting stars ... he's really looking for birds. Obviously. It's a pity that such a gorgeous song should contain a major flaw. There's no way you can get confused as to the difference between shooting stars and satellites ! Satellites crawl across the sky, whereas shooting stars whizz across in a second or two. Often less than that. And ...by the way ... I "ticked" Comet Neowise last night. Woo ! Jings!! Briwsion !!! 11:53 pm .... walked down the street ..... looked to the right of the Plough and a little bit down ..there it was, tail trailing upwards, away from the sun ( which, of course, was well below the horizon) , looking terrific in the starry background. After nights and nights of cloud and rain, I got it at last. And it should be good to see over the next few weeks as it gets to slide along, night by night, under the Plough...... There's loads of " how to see it" videos of various levels of usefulness, so I picked this one ..
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