I've had a hard time trying to "get" Sand Martin onto my dinky 3k list in recent outings .... but two days ago I got one .... amongst a 20-strong flock of Swallows + a few House Martins and Swifts. Ace ... .... but yesterday , at a different ,"outside the 3K" body of water, me and The Significant Otter had the excellent sight of 80+ Sand Martins almost covering the whole lake, flitting inches from the surface ... and a few Swallows .. but no Swifts or House Martins. She was impressed ... well, mildly interested, to put it more accurately. And then the drizzle started. Oddly, we were extremely pleased ... there's been NO rain at all here for 19 days ... and that was a tiny bit of drizzle which left nothing in the rain gauge at all... so it hardly counts. Five days before that, and 24 days before now, we got a measly 4mm, and a massive 43 days before now, 18th March to be precise, we had a wacking 8mm. So .... we didn't mind at all that the drizzle drizzled for the rest of the day... we really needed it. But I bet those Sand Martins were a bit miffed. Meanwhile, I've been thinking about that Wren that sounded like a Gibbon when it was cleverly s l o w e d d o w n...... ( See previous post if you haven't heard about it. ) [a] Would a Gibbon's call sound like a Wren when speeded up ? Does anybody know? Has anybody tried ??? [b] Are there lots of other examples of that in the "slowed-down-bird-universe ?" Or in the "speeded-up-mammal" world ? Here's some suggestions ... Speeded-up lion ....... Raven ? Slowed-down Willow-Warbler ...... expiring Kangaroo ? Where's all those boffins and Scientists when you really need them ? On a completely different tack, in the paper today they showed us a photo "released" by the USA purporting to show a UFO. But they haven't contacted me about "mine." Here it is ..on the end, rather mysteriously, of this link .. 313-my-very-own-ufo.html ... make what you can of that ! ... and this .......
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