Tag: #birdwatch
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Look this way: the glass is half full
A proper winter morning for a change. I’m birdwatching by the window with a cooling coffee. There’s a cluster of blue tits on the birch tree feeder, chaffinches catching crumbs on the ground. One robin, two blackbirds, three red squirrels frisky in the snow. Sights for sore eyes and sad hearts this grim December when…
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Zen and the art of the Big Garden Bird Watch
Stay still sparrows, I’m trying to count you. Cup of coffee on the table, notepad and pencil in hand and I’m set for a happy hour looking out the window. Make it two hours. Settling down for the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch I wondered if it would be cheating to do the count over the whole…