Up here in't North we huddle in our little sheds, wrapped up in ragged junk-shop coats hoping, just hoping that the coming ferocious winter will bring some winter birds in. Up where I "live" ferocious has been the right word.... we've had two successive "more than an inch of rain" days, and the winds have been ferocious .... last night loads of the recycling bins in our road got blown over, distributing loads of rubbish ferociously all over the place. And the river has been ferociously high, whooshing down honking great logs, upturned tables, garden sheds etc. Ferocious might be the word for all that. So ..will we get, for example, any Waxwings this year ? They were more or less non-existent last winter. Up here in the ferocious North anyway. And as for Bramblings, they've been v. scarce over several recent wintery months. Will some " wintering warblers" pick our garden to live in ? Will my 2020 3K list be seriously underwhelming for "not-my-fault" reasons ? Will fat-balls be categorised as non-essential items ? And peanuts/sunflower seeds/bird-tables, notebooks, pencils. ?? What about next year's diary ?? That's not essential. Not really. We will probably have to draw all our spottings on the walls of the caves we'll have to move to because houses will be classified as luxury items ... just like those cave-men did. And why we're at it, why do we never hear about " cave-women" ? We need to know. Without them none of us would be here. And what if my tripod collapses ... as it is, it only has two proper legs, with a totally different leg held on with sellotape ? Is that "essential." ??? Hey ! ... with Xmas more or less cancelled, and Christmas cards also non-essential, how am I going to compile my vital list of "birds on Christmas Cards" which I know brightens up your lives every year ? We top-spotters need to know. On top of all that, there's the 2nd ferocious lockdown starting/starling/startling. So ..for me, it's mostly back to my 3K patch, which ,by the way, has been mostly mud lately. Enough of this miserable and probably non-essential diatribe ! We need a bit of music ...preferably uplifting in some way ... and this is ...
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