I really do personal a cell ‘cellphone, however solely take it with me after I’m out someplace alone, or if Linda and I need to separate after which meet up in Norwich or someplace. It isn’t that I am some type of previous Luddite: I run two blogs and two web sites (each of which have had over 5 million visits!) and am a frequent poster on Fb and Twitter (or ‘X’ because it now likes to be recognized) It is simply that I hardly ever really feel the necessity to chat whereas I am having fun with a meal or day’s birding!
Nonetheless, as I used to be strolling to the native submit workplace this morning I actually wished I had the ‘cellphone in my pocket, as a result of I might have obtained not less than some document of three uncommon species on my native patch:
1) A Small Heath butterfly on a privet hedge
2) An Osprey circling overhead and drifting northwards
3) A Ring-necked Parakeet squawking from the highest of a roadside conifer!
I’ve seen each the birds from my kitchen window: imagine it or not, I’ve video (sadly on VHS!) of an Osprey almost touchdown on the garden in excessive winds just a few years again, whereas an RNP flew previous me whereas I used to be attempting out a brand new lens within the backyard! (That is the closely cropped picture beneath)
