ASs some regulars may know I sometimes have a few health problems that at times restricts my access to the countryside so many of the restrictions that we have endured, and are still enduring, do not feel strange to Chris and myself. My immune system is pretty shot up at times so I'm quite good at avoiding numbers of people, I'm maybe not as anti social as it seems, and I've never been a lover of shopping unless its books. When we were recommended to shield in our own homes we actually realised we could walk the riverside fields with permission from the owners and had little chance of meeting anyone so we felt quite happy there. When restrictions eased we have four small nature reserves within a couple of miles of home with plenty of space to avoid close contact but still both watch birds and talk about birds with others doing the same, quite a little anti social bird club we are. There has been good birds aplenty and as winter has drawn closer the wintering Thrushes arrived we have been doing counts on them. One of our local reserves has got a wonderful Starling murmuration,60,000 birds at least, which we managed to social distance the grandsons to. We have found by visiting the busiest of the reserves late afternoon most birders have gone home and we enjoy the spectacle of birds going to roost. We do miss visiting our local moorland but they are outside the 3 mile radius we put on ourselves, they will still be there when all this is over and we settle down to our new normal. Because I am in that at risk category we seem to be swimming in hand sanitiser but Chris keeps an eye on what I get up to. I just hope other folk are coping as well as us and getting the support we have been getting, take care out there we will beat this lot somehow.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
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I have to say I was very dubious in the beginning, so much money to be gained by the producers of the first vaccine out, but really as you say, you're caught between the devil & the deep blue sea. I admire you TJ, you've gone for it & paved the way for the rest to follow. I'm sorry you're all in lockdown again, but I don't suppose we'll (France) be far behind. Personally, I think with a nationwide curfew of 20h00 to 6h00 & all the bars & restaurants & cinemas & gyms and........all shut, we've not really come out of 2nd confinement.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
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Regards, Hazel
Unknown said:I got my booster jab of the Pfizer vaccine this afternoon.
Good for you! I think Limpy is in the fourth group so I'm hoping they'll catch up to him fairly soon. I think I'm in the tenth group, unless they unexpectedly give me priority as Limpy's carer. I'm assuming I've got a long wait!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Unknown said: think from now on people who have their first vaccination will have to wait 12 weeks for the second.
Yep!!! Hubby was due his booster early next week, but today they telephoned to say postponed,....
Just hope they are correct in saying will still be effective.... whatever, we will go with the flow, as we do with the Flu jabs....
SunnyKate2 said:Yep!!! Hubby was due his booster early next week, but today they telephoned to say postponed,....
Rats. I hope this doesn't compromise the safety of everyone who has been partly vaccinated. Keeping everything crossed.
Clare Bailey said:I think Limpy is in the fourth group so I'm hoping they'll catch up to him fairly soon.
I'm surprised at that, Clare. I would have thought that with his medical condition he would have been a much higher priority. Keep pushing the GP's to see if you can bring him up the ladder.
Unknown said:I'm surprised at that, Clare. I would have thought that with his medical condition he would have been a much higher priority. Keep pushing the GP's to see if you can bring him up the ladder.
He did ring them up - our surgery is a local hub - he was told that it would probably take a year just to do all the over-80's! Not exactly encouraging. We're lagging behind a bit - Felixstowe will start being immunised next week, while our nearest big town (Ipswich) started weeks ago.
Wendy S said:What with health conditions and age,77, I think I might be in the third wave but we will have to wait and see.
You're in the third group, the over-75's. Limpy is 66 and has so much wrong with him it would be easier to list what isn't wrong!