This isn't the conglomeration of Sparrows that I'm writing about ..... but it is vaguely appropriate. It is the only relevant snap I could find ....... so, read on ... There I was, strolling along a rather narrow path between two hedges, and in the distance I could hear a huge cacophony of House Sparrows. Not all that gripping I suppose, but when I got nearer I could see where they were. Somebody had made a 3m by 7m mesh enclosure and filled it full of hedge cuttings. And the Sparrows were there in noisy numbers ! I've no idea of how many there might have been in there ... 50 + maybe...100 ? I watched it all going on for a while, but didn't actually see any of them, such was the density of the contents. I suppose I could have bashed said enclosure with a hefty stick ..... so they would fly away and I could make a rough count of them. But I didn't. It would be mean and nasty and "anti-life" .... There were several more of those enclosures, all bunged up with sparrows as well. Perhaps it will become a "thing" and every country path will have them. Maybe the occupants of alien UFOs will be looking down at us humans and thinking " Crikey, there's huge conglomerations of aliens down there, many of them crowded together in tiny enclosures called houses .... and they all have names.. " Nicky Nook" or " "The Lodge" or "Buckingham Palace" or " Tranmere Rovers." Unfortunately I couldn't find an appropriate image to go with that. So we'll have this .... ..and here's the music .... it is vaguely relevant .... Edith Piaf ... La Foule Both Piaf and Foule are relevant French words (!)
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