Sitting by the burn, Algy found that the noise of the wind whooshing across the moorland disturbed the soothing trickling sounds of the water, and ruffled his mind as well as his feathers.

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The constant, soothing sound of the wee waterfall tumbling over the rocks just above him lulled Algy to sleep as he sat by the burn in the afternoon sun.

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This is what Algy heard while he was sitting in his tree late in the evening, watching the red deer in the gloaming. It may not seem very exciting to you, but in Britain this is a very rare sound these days, and Algy is privileged to be hearing it. (The background whooshing sound is not the wind, but the sound of the sea on the rocks in the distance.)

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Mr. Blackbird was in very good voice this evening, and entertained Algy for some time with a long series of songs. On the crofts, the sheep were chiding their lambs, and in the background Algy could hear some of the other birds chattering to one another.

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As Algy sat in his tree in the Scotch mist, trying to read his book, he could hear another of the newly arrived summer visitors calling to him in the distance, above the sound of the wind and the drizzling rain.

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When Algy moved down on to the rocks by the water, he sat quite still and listened to the fascinating sounds of the sea at low tide. It surged into the gullies between the rocks with a happy gurgle and splash, and sucked back out again with a hissing of sand, swirling the seaweed all around in the bubbling water at his feet.

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Mr. Blackbird spent all day singing in Algy’s tree, while his wife sat quietly on the nest he had built in the top of a wee basket inside the big shed. His song sounded something like this …

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Even a wee waterfall makes a satisfying sound, as Algy discovered while he was perched in the tree above it.

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Listen to some of the sounds which Algy heard while he was dangling his feet in the burn.

While Algy was reading his book of verse in the birch tree, a blackbird nearby was providing his own opinion of the spring.

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While Algy was doing his exercises, the sea was making a muffled roaring sound in the mist, as the incoming tide swirled around the wee islands in the bay.

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Listen to the sounds which Algy heard when he wound the key on the pretty German tin.

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Listen to the West Highland birds rehearsing their spring songs to the accompaniment of the south-westerly wind, as Algy reads his book of verse beside the first snowdrops of the year.

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As Algy bathed in his puddle, he listened to the pitter-patter of the rain falling around him and the twittering of the other birds in the trees.

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Listen to the trickling sounds of the burn that distracted Algy while he was trying to read.