[ I wrote this last night, so everything's a day out.] I hope you keep a "Bird of the Day" list. As opposed to the rather duff "Tweet of the day" which usually annoys me. It's much more do-able than listing rare stuff, and you get to appreciate the simpler things in life . It's cheaper too. Today ... Goldcrest ! ... right up by the window in the hedge. They only come into the garden very rarely ,in the deepest cold of the winter, so to "get" one this early is remarkable. Plus, the Significant Otter got onto it as well. I suspect it's only the 5th/6th record in the garden ! Yesterday ... Water Rail at Grumbling Stumps .... it crept out into view ... and crept back in again.I know how it feels. Day before yesterday, of course, it was Woodcock.... that one I saw crossing the road. Woo. The day before that, it was Bullfinches for me ... first thing, two of them were soooooing to each other in the tall trees on the embankment behind the house. And later on , they spent a lot of time in the Eucalyptus in the garden. We've had them around on and off for years, but they're not often in the actual garden. If they were rare, they'd be total grippers! ... nothing remarkably rare there .... some days I might stick a fox or a butterfly or a good moth into the list .... whatever happens to be the highlight of the day. I've even had woodlice etc in there ... I live in quite a good area for unusual woodlice. Roll on Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii ! But 99% of the time .. it's birds. Seriously folks , it's a good thing to do. Celebrating the small things in life. Sometimes, it seems to me that chasing after all that rare stuff is too much like going up the down escalator !
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