That's the mysterious Mr. G in the middle of the picture .... more of him later ... Yesterday, amidst the drizzle/hail/rain etc, a Grey Wag landed on our "water feature" , paddled around a bit, drank a bit, and then flew off. Well, over the years we've had plenty of Grey Wags on the "seen-from-the-house-list" , esp in Sept-Oct migration time ...but I can't remember a single one actually coming into the garden ...let alone actually landing on it. So ... I was quite pleased. Definitely the " Bird of the day." And as I finish that sentence, the has sky darkened, there's rolls of thunder in the distance, and the "office" windows are getting pounded with hefty rain and hail. Eek. OK ... the music. The title of this article is New Arrivals New Arrivals ... it was the final shout at the end of a song .... probably from the 80's/nineties ..... but I can't track it down. So we're going to have this instead... I discovered it this morning ... .............. serendipitously ..... Well, that singer must surely be the mysterious "Mr. G", my birding companion on many twitches/jaunts/successes/failures over many years ... but I didn't know he had a sideline doing French songs. I've even written about him on here ..... quite a few times ...... but right now I can only find these two ...... 41-white-billed-diver-twitch-and-straw-boaterists.html 60-birding-eccentrics-1-mr-g.html The Significant Otter has come up with that "New Arrivals" song .... and here it is .... Flesh for Lulu .... "Subterraneans" .....
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