Yesterday I took
part in the national bird count. I nearly forgot about it this year – too much
worrying about the Fox & his health.
The results were
quite different from usual. A whole flock of starlings appeared. Our usual
small birds – the sparrows & tits – made swift flights across the garden, obviously
intimidated by the larger birds especially when they included a couple of crows
this year. Indeed the small birds were too swift for me to identify the variety
of tit or sparrow & so I did not include them in the results. It wasn’t helped
when I noticed a black & white cart climbing along the branches of a
neighbouring tree – a favourite nesting place for the magpies. This cat, in
full stalking mode, seemed to get onto some very thin looking branches. I was
surprised they didn’t break under his weight.
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