HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a good week.
There was a major ruckus over my patch this past week. A dispute arose between the flock of Crows and the Barred Owl pair. I don't know what the issue of contention was, but the crows filled the sky cawing and squawking loudly, and the owls' booming hoots filled the forest for nearly an hour.
We had a couple of days of record-breaking warmth that made everyone shake their heads in surprise. It was 67F or 19C in my area with glorious sunshine. So very strange for February. It's back to winter now with snow coming next week.
So nice to see Heather back. Take care and don't try to do too much, Heather.
Love and hugs to all.
OG - great to hear from you. I like your sense of humour re finding things the men have misplaced!!! Good about the hygienist and glad you were able to get there.
Lindy - your story of the lost picture was a good read. It sounds familiar. “Safe” places often turn out like that!!! It is very frustrating though. Glad the picture is now found.
My outing was AWESOME!!!! I went to Parkgate on the Wirral. Those of you who have been will know it as the seaside with no sea! Well, today it had sea!!! The 10 metre spring tide brought the sea right up to the wall! I have never seen it like that before. Naturally, the RSPB hold an event which I and nearly 200 people attended. I cannot begin to describe the spectacle which unfolded. As the tide came in, the birds came nearer and nearer and flew around in big flocks. At one point, thousands of pink footed geese took off. The noise of their wings and their calls was just tremendous. Big flocks of everything - dunlin, lapwing, skylarks, just so many. As the tide got nearer, the carnage started. 4 great white egrets, a heron, a raven and many black headed gulls caught and devoured the poor panicking voles and shrews not 10 feet away from us. It was very gruesome but amazing to watch. The scene was frenetic for about half an hour. 2 water rails desperately tried to hide on floating islands of debris as did a Jack snipe. It’s tactic was to stay perfectly still and rely on camouflage!!! I didn’t mention hen harriers and marsh harriers!!! What a great place the Dee Estuary is. Ducks of course and the usual redshank, curlew, oystercatchers!!! Total overload!
Jack Snipe. Not my photo. But it is the one we saw.
To Find a Missing Item:— Forget about it. Then when you are looking for something else, the first will reappear.
This does not work when OH says “Where are my glasses?” (or garden snips or toothbrush or whatever). I must drop everything and search.
Rusty-- What a brilliant day you had! Thanks for your lovely description. I've been to Parkgate quite a few times, and its an odd place, where the sea seems to have decided to go elsewhere. You won't forget your trip! I was so annoyed about the picture, knowing that it was somewhere in the house, laughing at me! I'm another wife who has to regularly "find" things for a husband who doesn't know where they're normally kept, even. <sigh> I took a picture of my favourite paperweight for you glass lovers: it's a big one which I once lugged home from a holiday in my bag, no mean feat as its a big heavy one:
Bigger than the width of my (large) hand. The bubbles seem to float in it.