I heard about a lovely story on the radio today. There had been an outdoor concert at the Chinese Pavillion in the Drottningholm Palace Park Stockholm, Sweden. Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was on the program and the audience was enjoying the music in the early summer evening.
High up, on the top of a large spruce, sat a blackbird (Turdus merula, the national bird of Sweden). When the clarinet started playing he must have thought it was another blackbird trying to poach on his preserves. He started twittering and chirping more and more, louder and louder to make his voice heard above this "intruder".
The audience had a musical experience in the "double sense"!
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