Healing powahz of Naychur?
Spotted via Facebook, the suggestion to gaze out of the window - or, I dunno, actually go out onto the balcony/into the garden/whatevs - and see how many birds you are able to spot.
(I think this is meant to be an 'over a period of time' project, rather than 'in the next 5 minutes'.)
Okay, we do have a garden, and a vista from the back windows over our back garden, the Contested Territory (for historical reasons this currently forms parts of neighbouring gardens, but the Local Authority claims that they do not own it and it belongs to the Council, there have been kerfuffles that we, having no stake in, have been on the margins of), and the Pocket Park out the back.
However I would not describe this as an ornitho-paradise - spotting birds tends to go -
Pigeon* -
Another pigeon -
Hello Mr Magpie how are the Magpie Family today?
Two more pigeons -
I think that might be a robin on the back fence?
Pigeons.
Possible tit in the tree?
Blackbird on the lawn.
Squirrel belts along the back fence. Not a bird.
Pigeons.
Etc, etc.
One sometimes sees/used to see in the days when one went out seagulls of assorted kinds on the local playing field, also pied/grey wagtails v occasionally, and once, most unusually, ducks.
At least once there was a sighting of parakeets in the pocket park but I do not think they have become resident avians.
Walking through the pocket park there was a cluster of sparrows in the foliage at one corner, discernable mostly by the noise.
I suppose one might put up a bird-table (next-door have) but I am not sure there is much evidence that this brings all the birbs to the yard, rather than the squirrels.
*Okay, some of these are Common or erkish Pigeons and some are Wood Pigeons. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3068455.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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