Not that you've much chance of spotting owt. We were talking about the Tour de France at Gr. Stumps yesterday .... and about the birding possibilities. Or lack of them. I remember previous tours where they would point the cameras up sometimes at birds of prey ... usually too far away to id except to genus .... or you might hear a bird or two as they went through some dense foresty bit ... very rarely you might see " something" flitting over the road .... but your best bet was when they went by or over lakes ... or estuaries ..... for some reason the birds seem to be bigger and more conspicuous/less cryptic in those sort of places. They're often white . Why are so many seabirds white ? Or for that matter, black ? Then there's those mountains ..... where there might indeed be good stuff ...those windswept cafes up near the summits with big car parks and therefore food and therefore birds .... but I've never seen any. They're too busy filming the riders huffing and puffing drearily up those aforementioned slopes. And , of course, whizzing down them at nake-breck speeds. I wonder ,er, why . Anyway, yesterday was a "break" day when they show the highlights, but they also tend to put some quirky bits in. They "did" that big bloke with a sort of Viking outfit on running alongside the riders ... cliche 1, and cliche 2 was the galloping horses. Well, horse actually. But no discernible birds. I expected better. I'll keep looking. And may the road rise with you .... LATEST ..as I'm writing this, a crow has landed on the roof, and stuck its head through the open window. It is staring at me now, as I write. It looks very confident.
How bizarre ! A bit later ... it has flown off.
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