tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post6502877997499361171..comments2024-03-28T07:49:49.991+00:00Comments on Not Quite Scilly: Good Old BirdForumGavin Haighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242398421328525578noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post-74951793825787316782021-02-18T00:58:35.592+00:002021-02-18T00:58:35.592+00:00Yes Gav, it was. For those who don't know, you...Yes Gav, it was. For those who don't know, you and my brother Phil were in the same class at school.<br /><br />However it happened, all three of us ended up wandering through this remnant of woodland and brother Phil simply on the basis of a large hole in a long gone giant Elm tree, said " Let's show you the Owls nest".<br /><br />This I found wildly optimistic for two reasons. First was that Phil hadn't even seen an Owl in the woods. I had. And secondly, it was just a hole in a tree. Anyway, no sooner had he said that, we turned the corner and found that juv Tawny Owl. <br /><br />The adults were perched nearby. I guess they were standing guard, but with three of us there? To be fair, on reflection, that hole in the tree now seems a perfect site for a nest.<br /><br />That woodland was also where I saw my first ever woodpecker. A LSW no less. Richttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714117508358025668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post-52368946943281717862021-02-17T22:47:14.112+00:002021-02-17T22:47:14.112+00:00There are some who won't be put off by anythin...There are some who won't be put off by <i>anything</i> Dave!Gavin Haighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242398421328525578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post-47189343668527383162021-02-17T22:46:22.659+00:002021-02-17T22:46:22.659+00:00All so depressingly predictable too...
Bluebell W...All so depressingly predictable too...<br /><br />Bluebell Wood. That takes me back. Wasn't that where we found the juv Tawny Owl on the deck? Must be almost 50 years ago!Gavin Haighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242398421328525578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post-73162622195243620532021-02-17T10:15:47.946+00:002021-02-17T10:15:47.946+00:00I wonder how many will want to see the mockingbird...I wonder how many will want to see the mockingbird now that the Media has done such a great job of advertising it? Dave Burrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08259482046178828401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824385241230348874.post-42267308918352665082021-02-17T02:40:42.805+00:002021-02-17T02:40:42.805+00:00Motivation Gav?
It's taken until this Covid-1...Motivation Gav?<br /><br />It's taken until this Covid-19 business to appreciate the motivations of other people. I'm motivated to do things, but don't my actions to affect anyone else. Which is why I'm going out on the bike, at @ 03:00am.<br /><br />Others I notice, really don't seem to understand that anything they do, can and does affect others. It all about them. Only their course of action matters. I do wonder if some part of their mind has been compromised in some way, or maybe only some of us have had the empathy gene switched on?<br /><br />Treecreeper? I remember the very first one I ever saw. Bluebell wood. Right in front of me climbing the trunk of a Hawthorn tree. I looked up and there it was. I think my heart missed a beat. It was a kind of shock/wow moment.<br /><br /><br /><br />Richttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714117508358025668noreply@blogger.com