These three/tree (?) pictures show the "panorama" from my attic/office/junkheap window ... you'll have seen bits of it before on various cloud pictures etc ... I like clouds...and their fancy names. That dinky Starling at the top of the tree on the far right of the picture below was doing an excellent Buzzard impression when I took the photographs this morning. I took that as a good omen. Over the years I've scanned all that lot 100s of times ...... the " from the house" list is hovering around 100, depending on what you can really count (?!), and I suppose the "attic window panorama list" is probably around 55-60ish. Maybe .... perhaps. Guesstimate. Thishful Winking. But ... think of all those birds I've missed ! The attic/office/etc has only had a window for the last 7 or so years .... and when I'm up here I'm only looking out of it for about ¼ % of the time, so the "hours" must be pretty small. Plus, living up north as I do, I hardly ever open the windows, and therefore miss out on lots of overflying calling stuff. Grrrrr. The "one" I most miss .. and want .... is the Wily Waxwing. I've come very close to "house-getting" it ... v. v. close .... seconds away !!!! But ...... fate has not been with me. There's other possibles that I might eventually get on the HL if I live long enough.. .... Ospreys have undoubtedly flown over, Little Egret is a shocking gap ... they're only a dinky distance away ..... they're the big hitters that should be on the house list..... but aren't. I've "got" quite a few good-uns..... Water Rail, once, Short-eared Owl, once, Common Crane !!!!! ( once) , various Owl spp , Treecreeper, once .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But ...away with this Flimsy-Whimsy, Dippy-Drippy Wavely Newtish Wubbish ! Us birders must be Resolute, Tough, Doughty, Indomitable and ,er, Plucky. But not necessarily in that order. We must be Flexible as well. So ... the music is a live version of "A Tientas" ... Vetusta Morla .. it's based on the "Icarus" story .... an absolute belter of a song .... Coge tus cosas
y corre lejos, lejos corre asta el sol pero cuidado con tus alas ten cuidado Ícaro ( there he is !) reencarnado en ojos de miel en ojos de mujer fatal sin afinar tus latidos dicen nunca mas hoy nadie miraba hacia atrás vuela alto en tu caballo sideral miras y ries por no llorar ries para cantar una historia forzada sin principio ni final esta historia de princesas qe no tienen reino qe no tienen rumbo viven a tientas con un sueño a cuestas en su cabeza hasta donde tu quieres llegar dice aquel señor de barba espesa con sorpresa por verte cambiada
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