tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post1891170108672326969..comments2024-03-27T11:18:59.924+00:00Comments on Sun Dried Sparrows: An avian observation postChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-45794345053559784762020-07-16T18:33:04.082+01:002020-07-16T18:33:04.082+01:00Thanks Martin, I'm sorry I missed this comment...Thanks Martin, I'm sorry I missed this comment earlier. But 'great minds' re. this topic!Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-10517452674295655342020-07-07T18:36:45.296+01:002020-07-07T18:36:45.296+01:00Great post, C :)Great post, C :)Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267504526414194713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-46943978191930105322015-02-04T10:49:47.712+00:002015-02-04T10:49:47.712+00:00Thanks, SB and I'm glad you enjoyed. If I eve...Thanks, SB and I'm glad you enjoyed. If I ever find another older version of the book of birds in a charity shop spree, I'll send it on!<br /><br />Thank you too for sharing your poem. It's perfect. I love it. Beautiful.<br /><br />(I talk to the birds... like pets... if I'm in the garden or leaning out the back door Mr SDS says just the same to me. "Sshhh! People will think you're mad!" But I really don't care.)<br /><br />Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-72048462140605443712015-02-03T22:55:19.785+00:002015-02-03T22:55:19.785+00:00Lovely post, C. Thanks for leading me to it. Your ...Lovely post, C. Thanks for leading me to it. Your edition of 'Birds' is definitely older than mine, so I'm a bit envious. The front cover illustration is gorgeous compared to the photo of some tits that they used for my later copy. Why do they always seem to think that being 'modern' needs to preclude a nice illustration? Seems to happen with a lot of books. As for Alan Ross, I've not heard of him but maybe, if I'm wait long enough, I'll catch another glimpse of him one day. If you don't mind, your post reminded me of a 'poem' I once penned and here it is:<br /><br /><br />Whistling to Robins<br /><br />The woods are filled with robins,<br />threading the trees with a thin wire of song.<br />Halfway along the ash path,<br />beneath the spread of beech and chestnut trees,<br />we stop and listen:<br />a sharp ‘chirrup!’, with a twist and a ‘peep!’<br />I’ll never be a bird amanuensis,<br />but that’s a rough idea.<br />A russet joker flits through air;<br />pugnacious puff-ball,<br />it skips along a fractured branch,<br />curiously eyeing our movements,<br />then scatters its wild triplets<br />and quarter tones into the blue –<br />a true jazz maverick.<br />Impulsively, I whistle back;<br />my song a sad mockery<br />of its quick-witted trilling.<br />You look at me open mouthed,<br />and you whisper, ‘Don’t do that!<br />People will think you’re mad’.<br />‘Yes’, I say, ‘they will’.<br /><br />Not much, I know but there it is. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-62773726702038480692011-10-27T18:03:13.946+01:002011-10-27T18:03:13.946+01:00Many thanks, A. Linguine alla rallentando, eh? Is...Many thanks, A. Linguine alla rallentando, eh? Is that something MPW serves up at the Angel?<br /><br />I've been reliably informed that the last picture is of the now extinct sausage-bird (turdus sausagus). Perhaps hunted for its meat?<br /><br />Enjoy your Observer's Seashore if you get one. I've got three other similar little guides that I love, The Reader's Digest Nature Lover's Library Field Guides to: 'Animals of Britain', 'Water Life of Britain'(lots of seashore stuff) and 'Butterflies & other insects'. I wouldn't be without them!Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02423624920558505937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075393268513251879.post-4957926255195767302011-10-24T21:16:11.746+01:002011-10-24T21:16:11.746+01:00Love the drawings - you do them more justice than ...Love the drawings - you do them more justice than you give yourself credit for - the last one looks like one of mine! <br /><br />Never owned an Observer book me, but the one I was always nearly tempted to buy was the one about the Seashore. Maybe I'll go and get buy it after reading this.<br /><br />And I'm pretty sure they serve "rallentando" on a bed of linguine....A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13142931714121592395noreply@blogger.com