By: Blonde Two
Life is good and exciting again, there is daylight, there is sunshine and there are birds. This weekend, Dartmoor was chilly in the wind, but very sunny. The best thing though, was that all of the Dartmoor birds were making their presence known.
We saw two swallows recovering on a telegraph wire from their travels. There was a meadow pipit who seemed particularly pleased to see us, and perched on a rock to sing us a song. A buzzard hovered over the prison at Princetown. The skylarks were like an orchestra of tiny hovering piccolos and the Brat Tor cuckoo was back and cuckooing loud and clear.
What a lovely time of year. Back at home I have to report that the seagulls are nesting on our chimney, the swift has yet to return to our air vent and Mr Blonde Two keeps getting woken up in the early hours by great tits!
I would love to comment about being woken up in the early hours by great tits but I really mustn’t!
I really shouldn’t have either … but it is true!!
Very appropriate birds – since they sing
Teacher, teacher, teacher.
and they usually have capitals
being very properly named birds
Starfire: Please can they sing “Writer, writer, writer.” in a few weeks time.
Gimmer: I have been undecided about the capital letters. I too was taught to add them, but modern internet research suggests that they are no longer necessary. Maybe you are right, who wants to be modern and internetty!
without them, lies, unambiguously, impropriety, surely ?
Thought I would remove some duckweed from the pond today (it is smothered in it) but I can’t. There are porriwiggles, about 5 to the square inch, everywhere. Even the nautilus snails have come out of the water to have a sun bath. The woods on the hill are full of blackcaps and chiff-chaffs and the first willow warblers and whitethroats are back. Time for a dawn walk !!!!!
I can’t find out what porriwiggles are anywhere … proving that Google doesn’t have all of the answers!!
Ah! Porriwiggle! That is Lancashire for tadpole, ma’am. Only it is such a lovely word I can’t resist it, even though Yorkshire born!