@pamknowler thank you Pam. This looks and sounds awesome, so much better than any photo can make it look.
It is called Forgotten Songs and was installed in 2012 as part of a temporary art project around the city but it was kept as it was so popular.
Forgotten Songs commemorates the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney, before they were gradually forced out by European settlement. The calls, which filter down from the canopy of birdcages suspended above Angel Place, change as day shifts to night; the daytime birds’ songs disappearing with the sun, and those of the nocturnal birds, which inhabited the area, sounding into the evening.
It is called Forgotten Songs and was installed in 2012 as part of a temporary art project around the city but it was kept as it was so popular.
Forgotten Songs commemorates the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney, before they were gradually forced out by European settlement. The calls, which filter down from the canopy of birdcages suspended above Angel Place, change as day shifts to night; the daytime birds’ songs disappearing with the sun, and those of the nocturnal birds, which inhabited the area, sounding into the evening.