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Pairs
After a morning outing where I finally cracked and started going slightly mad I had a cuppa at home and calmed down a bit. However I remembered what my old PE teacher Mr Hall used to say; “You only get out what you put in” so I decided that I should put some more in now so that eventually I’ll get more out when (if
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As I started out for my stroll around the local park I noticed a pair of Grey Wagtail but they were on the wrong side of the river. However I didn’t have to wait long as something small and brownish flitted by and landed flat against the trunk of a small tree. It was a Treecreeper and promptly shot up the trunk and out of sight. It was very quickly joined by a second and this one hung around a bit longer working its way along and under one of the lateral branches before coming back to the main trunk along the top. It then displayed classic “jizz” by flying to the next tree along, landing near the bottom of the trunk and working its way up and around. I was always taught that Nuthatches behave in the opposite fashion – landing at the top of the tree and working their way down. After leaving the Treecreepers in peace I carried on round the path to the corner where the two rivers meet. Here there were a pair of Black Headed Gulls and a pair of Moorhens. Some loud piping calls had me scanning the surface of the water before a saw the blue flash that had been making the noise. There wasn’t just one Kingfisher but two another pair. I thought that my touch of mania was returning as every species of bird I was seeing were in pairs. As I followed the Kingfishers up river I passed a pair of Coots and a pair of Blackbirds and when I got to the Wooden bridge these pairs were joined by a pair of Long-tailed Tits and a pair of Goldcrests. I focused instead on the Kingfishers as they seemed to be courting with lots of piping calls and “quick follow me” bursts of flying before settling back to the same perch. I always feel that Kingfishers are out of place here in Britain their gaudy colouration would seem more at home in the tropics in some seething Jungle. Luckily a solitary Chiff-Chaff put in a brief appearance breaking the “pairs magic”. So it seems that the birds at least are confident that we really are in spring despite the arctic conditions it must end soon surely – else we won’t have time to fit Spring in before Summer is supposed to arrive?
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Have a goodun
Wurzel