Tag Archives: birds

Seagull breakfast

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Chris

After the extreme cold of the last two winters, the recent mild conditions have taken us by surprise. (Tomorrow’s forecast, for instance, is for a virtually tropical thirteen degrees Celsius!) We’re not the only ones to be confused though. The … Continue reading →

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Pigeon post

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Chris

I’m puzzled. (Yeah, I know that’s nothing new.) What really puzzles me though, is how I can go for years accepting something without question (e.g., cardboard milk cartons that splash your milk all over the table upon opening, incompetent Tory … Continue reading →

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Wagtail inspects water pipe burst

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Chris

A water pipe near one of our neighbours’ houses sprung a leak yesterday. Anglian Water engineers came along in a van, inspected it, sprayed their equivalent of a post-it note in blue paint on the pavement (’3″ cast’), and left, … Continue reading →

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I twitch, therefore I am

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Chris

This morning I saw three house sparrows sitting together on a bush opposite our house. Three-and-a-half points, I thought, totting up on my personal scale of relative bird values, where spadgers are worth a mere half-a-point each. My spirits sank, … Continue reading →

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