How can you tell that they're not watching the eclipse ? Well, after all that grumbling yesterday about probably missing the partial eclipse what with the crap weather forecast etc, I did actually get a decent view of it. Woo ! Crumbs ! But not for long .... a couple of minutes as the cloud thinned, but still thick enough to be safe to look at ...and there it was, a very pale sun with a biggish curved bite out of its top. But then the clouds thickened up with only 20 mins of the eclipse left. But that was OK. I've had worse. And there's a brilliant photo of the eclipse in today's i ( Friday 11th June) ( Other newspapers are available )(..but more expensive) BUT .... birds .... that's what this blog is supposed to be about. The lady next door is constantly asking me what various birds are that she's seen. She's got form on this. She hears cuckoos in midwinter. That sort of thing. She hears birds and then tries to tell me what they sounded like. And every time , I've no idea what "it" could possibly be. I usually fall back to the ever-reliable "Great Tit Theory". Or, of course, there's the " Starling that imitates things" ploy. Over the years, we've had a few of them. Very convincing they were too. The trouble with all that, is.... it's so easy to dismiss everything she says .... ... but there's always the nagging thought that this time, she might really have spotted an actual " interesting " bird. And talking of eccentrics, there's an old gaffer who walks down our road most days, who looks like someone from the 1940s ... baggy tweedy trousers tucked into ancient socks, tweedy jacket with 67 pockets all bulging out with something or other, National Health spectacles, a stick ( of course) , and draped round his neck , a 5-ton pair of pre-war binoculars ... (that's pre-first-World-War) ... the whole 1940's look. Seriously. Sometimes he has a gaggle of hangers-on, similarly ( to various degrees) decked out, all creaking along, probably from the local Darby & Joan Club. Hey ... I'm going to try to get a crap-snap of him/them when I get the chance. Now there's a project. I'm not taking the piss out of them ... I'm just fascinated. Hey ... maybe they're all ghosts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now, music ..... relevant music too ... tangentially ...
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