Saw a red kite yesterday, joyous
Do you want some? I could probably get a big net, and catch some for you. Half a dozen or more circle around this housing development every day. Never quite within touching distance of my 1st floor window, but, yeah, I could throw a net over one or two.
Blackbirds have taken over locally. Seemingly working in pairs, one scurrying about in the foilage and grass, another perched someway off keeping watch and staying in communication by singing. Or they just sit in alternating trees, or on the tall roofs, and take it in turns to sing a few seconds to each other, back and forth, back and forth.
Walking back the other day one spotted me an fraction of a second before I noticed him. I wasn't sure what I was looking at. Head side on, one big eye, completely frozen, beek hanging open. Quite comic. For a couple of seconds, I thought I was looking at a child's toy, a wooden statue of a bird. Then it became clear it was actually the real thing. Poor bugger, caught unawares of my approaching, too late to make an unseen getaway, was trying to hide in plain sight. Presumably he caught the recognition in my face, as he buggered off into the bushes quick as a flash.
