Ball, ball bouncy, Blackbird’s in his bath. Thrush is breaking snailshells, Down the garden path. Spikey’s in his woodpile, The doves have fought again, Ball, ball bouncy, Let’s have a game. This is a mangling of an old rhyme.
Tag: hedgehog
Into the light…
Today was less about the crowd of sparrows and chaffinches, a solitary ring dove that limped slightly, the little woodpecker who flounced from feeder to feeder to lawn or the dumpy blackbird fledgling which seems to have secreted itself in the hedge motel this evening – which is at least a more sensible and secure… Continue reading Into the light…
Filling in the gaps…
I missed yesterday’s blog entry…between sickly hedgehogs and a 90th birthday cake…and it wasn’t as though I didn’t have anything to write about. For the first time I saw the reed bunting doing something that I imagine would be part of its behaviour close to the river, in other words amongst reeds. There is a… Continue reading Filling in the gaps…
One of those days…
It’s been an energetic sort of day with a lot of memorable moments. As soon as I lifted the kitchen blind I saw the first parent of the year, a frantic-looking sparrow a-top the ash pile, stuffing something into the gape of a fat youngster. There were some welcome visitors that we don’t see every… Continue reading One of those days…
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