starlings
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Nature Notes
Chalk Percolated Rain, and Rain Birds There is, at last, a hardening; a crust to the mud of landrover tracks, to the pocks of hoof and boot prints. There is still a thigh burning pull through gateways and wetter places. But suddenly, we are talking about harrowing and rolling. The winter rain’s pond in the […]
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Nature Notes
The Hawk and the Blackbird The blackbirds sounded the alarm first, the high, thin, seeip, seeip, reminiscent of redwings in autumn, indicated an aerial predator along the lane towards home. By the time I reached the garden, the alarm had escalated to shrill, rising and falling screams and had been picked up by the ‘tsee […]