Yesterday, for the first time this year, me, The Significant Otter + cat and dog sat out in the garden and had us dinners. At last. Naturally I was hoping for something good to fly over .. a Swallow or two, a Buzzard or Raven or better ... but not much actually did. There was plenty of the local stuff around ... lots of songs and calls. But we ...well, me .... were entertained and impressed by a Starling high up in a nearby tree. It spent most of its time being a Starling, naturally enough, but fooled me for a while with its brilliant "Curlew" impersonations. Yes, I ricked my neck a few times trying to spot this flyover, only to realise it was the speckly thing in the tree. It also did brilliant Oystercatcher calls every so often, but I was used to them.. it's been doing it for weeks. But best of all .... a few times it did a perfect Little Owl call.... the " wow" one. There are Little Owls around our way , but they're not so easy to find as they used to be. I love them. It's one of those species that I can remember the very first time I saw one. It was perched on top of a huge boulder in a quarry near Dalton-in Furness. Ace. That was 40+ years ago. Ouch ! They also have been very close to the house at times .... one used to like sitting on the top of the telephone post across the road. He was a noisy ...but welcome ...sod ! O gorau ... digon o geiriau.... smotyn o gerddoriaeth...... dyma Y Cyrff gan "Cymru, Lloegr a Llanrwst" .. ... and if you want to sing along ... ... and here's where the title of the song comes from ...
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