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Birthday Girl

Bird — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:37:51 +0000

I guess June is a month for love if the number of March babies is anything to go by… and I should know, being a March baby myself. Yes, it’s my birthday today, and I was woken up by R with a lovely mug of tea and a bag full of pretty parcels – I [...]

Sky in the water

Bird — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:21:17 +0000

What’s wrong with these pictures? Unless you live on Pandora you don’t often get to see land floating through the sky! It’s been raining here in London almost non stop for the last couple of weeks, so on one of the few fine days last week I took my chance to go for a stroll [...]

Sunset and Moonrise

Bird — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:05:07 +0000

It’s hard to believe that spring is coming but it is – no, really. The birds are singing with renewed vigour and in the garden buds are fattening, the heads of hyacinths are poking through the waterlogged soil and every evening the sun sets a little later. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s still snowing in [...]

Helping The Early Birds

Bird — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:22:09 +0000

Something was different today as I opened the back door to check the bird feeders and fill up our makeshift bird table – all along the back fence sat a row of little birds. They were waiting! Almost overnight it seems they have taken to using the bird feeders, almost emptying the seed feeder in [...]

Feed The Birds

Bird — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:21:48 +0000

When running in my local park just before the big snowfall I marvelled at how so many birds seemed to be in full and frantic song, as if it were summer almost. The unseasonal display was quite disconcerting. Are they singing so early to establish territory in harsh weather? Birdsong is more than a pretty [...]