Tag: birding
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Garden birds III
Just a few observations and thoughts. I have been watching the pair of Dunnocks, a species described by the British Trust for Ornithology as having an “interesting” sex life, elsewhere as promiscuous, polygamous and indulging in “sneaky mating”. They are rather dismissively described by the BTO as a “little brown bird” and by others as…
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Garden Birds II, April 2024
Garden Birds II, April 2024 When my brother and I were young, a highlight of school holidays was a visit to Uncle Fred, our great-uncle on my mother’s side, a retired engineer who was married to her mother’s sister. He lived, alone after her death, in a large house in Pangbourne on the Thames (he…