That's me in my younger days ... notice my brilliant home-made BCA device ... " Bird Calls Amplifier" ..which I have christened as the "Vismigophone". [I can tell I drew that before 2012 because one morning I made myself a cup of tea and it tasted awful. I made another one ... a different brand .... and that tasted horrible. Overnight, my tea-sensors had gone crackers. Everything else was OK ..coffee, beer, Orange Juice .... very odd. ] But I digress....... In the "good old days" when I was young and sprightly I would get up at some unearthly hour and go vismigging .... often from the comfort (?) of my own garden. However, these days I feel the cold a lot more, I'm not as patient as I used to be, and I find it harder to pick out wispy, faint, 300m-above calls from birds I can hardly see. And here's another thing. The passage isn't anywhere as good as it used to be. Why, I don't know. It may well be linked to the gradual decrease of diversity and numbers of birds around my area. Who knows ? ( Maybe I'm not as good as I used to be either ) Moving on .... I'm hopefully looking forward to the much-awaited " Warbler-Wintering" .... every winter in the garden we get one or two Blackcaps and/or Chiffs over the season, sometimes just the one, sometimes three. It's hard to be sure as to the exact numbers, because one male Blackcap looks very like another. But occasionally you get to see them together ... but I still don't really get to know the true numbers for sure. Now ...for your entertainment ..... a video of various strange things in the sky ... some of them are quite ordinary .. the Rainbow + 2 "suns" on either side is not rare .... and one is surely a bird .... .. and who could forget my very own UFO ... 313-my-very-own-ufo.html And here's a "relevant" song ....
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