There I was, taking my permitted out-for-exercise walk down to the estuary, when I binoculared a pale greyish-white bird of some sort sitting on a post of some sort .... oho, what's this, thought I. At that stage, it was nowt but a speck of some sort. ...... As I got less far away I checked it every couple of minutes ... it was still there. And then, once I had got onto the estuary path, I had another, a-bit-less far-away look ... it seemed to have blackish wing-tips too.... ... quite intriguing, think you not ? More on that after the music .... with which I try to put off having to tell you what it actually was .... From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow capped mountains white From a distance the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace It's the voice of every man From a distance we all have enough And no one is in need And there are no guns, no bombs and no diseases No hungry mouths to feed From a distance we are instruments Marching in a common band Playing songs of home, playing songs of peace They're the songs of every man God is watching us, God is watching us God is watching us from a distance From a distance you look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I just cannot comprehend What all this fighting is for From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves It's the heart of every man And God is watching us, God is watching us God is watching us from a distance Oh, God is watching us, God is watching us God is watching us from a distance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well folks, that thing on the top of that pole was a trainer ... in my day they were called plimsolls .... that's probably why it hadn't flown away. Then I plodded back home, and there were 400+ Black-tailed Godwits on a flooded field ..... I'm pretty sure they were BTGs, and almost 100% sure that it was a flooded field. To cheer you up and make you feel superior, here's some more mistakes ... This was somebody else's bog-up ... 686-a-bigger-mistake-than-that-one-on-post-682.html This one was a moth-mistake ... 682-its-not-just-birds-we-can-get-wrong.html The linky thing seems to have packed up ..... I'll sort it out later. Hey... I've just realised ... I should have had a closer look at it, and narrowed it down to species and subspecies .. I'm sure that they must be classified like that, so that the "trainer-fraternity" can establish a heirarchy .
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