ring ouzels
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Nature Notes
An Almost-Hoopoe. .My ten-year-old daughter described this reluctant spring perfectly as we passed a bank of wood anemones, their petals pursed tight, like lips withholding a secret: ‘it’s like the ground knows it’s spring, but the sky won’t have it’. There were patchy reports of spring migrant birds coming through – wheatear and ring ouzel. […]
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Nature Notes
Mountain Blackbirds. I am feeding the farmland birds (on a grand scale) for the last time this season, driving round the depleted wild bird cover plots in the 4WD Gator, spinning out seed like gold dust from the hopper behind me. The songbirds are all nesting or moved on now, but they are all set […]