Category: Birds

birdwatching related news

Art work by Carys Melton. age eleven. Are the adults listening?

WHEN THIS OLD WORLD STARTS GETTING ME DOWN

How strange, or perhaps not, that in recent weeks it is this 1962 lyric from the Drifter’s…

TIME

“Time is flowing like a river, on and on to the sea”. This was the haunting lyric in a song from…

SO, GOING FORWARD!

“SO, GOING FORWARD, LET US BE CLEAR”, (such is the parlance of the day) just because I am seventy…

Heading Out

ANYWAY,ANYHOW,ANYWHERE.

ANYWAY, ANYHOW, ANYWHERE. (A song from 1965 and probably the best single ever. More of which…

LOOSE CANNON,LOOSE ENDS,STRANGE DAYS

“The world is too much with us late and soon”. Back in April I drew on these words by Wordsworth to…

Bluebells in oak wood. College valley

WILD THING

‘Wild Thing’ was a top ten hit in 1965 for a west country ‘group’ called The Troggs. Not many…

Dandelion.

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US;LATE AND SOON

Nothing could be more true on this day, April 28th 2020. More people have died from the coronovirus…

BIRDWATCHING DAYS

The pall of a global pandemic hangs over us. Should humankind emerge from it the message is clear;…

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

January 16th, 2020: 70th birthday. A fine day of celebration marked by our walk on Bamburgh beach…