Here's the Rowan tree in the garden next door. You can't miss it ... But ... here's the thing..... every year, the berries appear, and within a couple of days they have all been gobbled up by blackbirds, starlings and various other avian goodie-gobblers. SO ... why ..why oh why ..... have they not eaten them this year ? Is it the searing heat .. locally dubbed " The Flintshire Furnace" ? Probably not. Is it the lack of fruit-eating birds ? No. Is it Covid restrictions ? Not right now ... but the rules change hourly. Maybe minutely .. which is a bit ambiguous. Does it mean "every minute", or does it mean "only in a small way.?" Any or all of your ideas will be welcomed ...... as a comment, and/or to [email protected] And here's another thing. A baffling-thing. Over the last ten days or so, when I go out first thing to replenish the seed feeder, somehow or other something or other has found a way to open up the "sliding-door-in-the-roof-of-it" . Yes. It's not as if it's a doddle. I find it quite awkward to open myself. So that's another thing. And here's the next Conundrum Of The Day..... Do birds shit in flight ? I've often watched multitudinous murmurations comprising tens of thousands of starlings, and I've never seen one of them shitting. ( It passes the time). So there we are. Baffled ..or maybe ....not. If only we were forever young, we might just crack those tricky conundrums ... Extra bonus question ... how many birds are in that tree ?
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