I always have a " bird of the day" ..though it isn't always a bird. I have written about it before... so it won't come as too much of a shock to either of my loyal readers. Yesterday's " bird of the day" was a Swift. I saw several yesterday, but one particular one stood out from the rest. That's the thing ... circumstances often make tiny things more memorable. We ( the Significant Otter and me) went up to Lancaster to visit my sister and some of her menagerie, and then us two went up to Wiggly Park, which is our name for Williamson Park, the one whose massive memorial is visible from the M6 as you whoosh by, poking out of the park's numerous trees. We call it that because loads of people get lost what with the maze-like twisty paths and the almost total lack of intervisibiity due to the trees I mentioned earlier. Anyway, we sat on a bench which overlooks the city and I scanned the apparently empty vista spread out below us ..... and then, a Swift loomed into the view. It was really, really high up and really really far away, ploughing its solitary way southwards over Lancaster. Lowering the bins, I couldn't even see it with the naked eye. That made it even more mysterious and noteworthy. So that was the Bird of the Day. because it was Far Away and extremely altitudinous which increased its interestingness. I hope you "do" your own "bird of the day." Even if it's sometimes a stoat. Or a Brown Argus. Here's your appropriate music spot ...... "On a good day" with Joanna Newsom
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