Loved this one, especially the bit about distinguishing between crow and raven. We like the usual birds a lot, though we couldn’t help but enthuse over an unusual Tropical Kingbird sighting the other day.
From “Skylarks with Rosie: A Somerset Spring”) written during the covid lockdown period:
“All these (birds on a marshland I used to visit but can no longer) made my garden sightings feel somehow less significant in comparison. Yet as it dawned on me that my garden and the moor behind my home were now the boundaries of my life for the foreseeable future, I again realised what I have always known: that birding isn’t about the rare and unusual – exciting though they are – but the reassuringly regular and commonplace. In any case, this was what I would be seeing and hearing during this particular spring, and so, I decided, I had better start to enjoy it.”
Loved this one, especially the bit about distinguishing between crow and raven. We like the usual birds a lot, though we couldn’t help but enthuse over an unusual Tropical Kingbird sighting the other day.
From “Skylarks with Rosie: A Somerset Spring”) written during the covid lockdown period:
“All these (birds on a marshland I used to visit but can no longer) made my garden sightings feel somehow less significant in comparison. Yet as it dawned on me that my garden and the moor behind my home were now the boundaries of my life for the foreseeable future, I again realised what I have always known: that birding isn’t about the rare and unusual – exciting though they are – but the reassuringly regular and commonplace. In any case, this was what I would be seeing and hearing during this particular spring, and so, I decided, I had better start to enjoy it.”