Bird-watching With Bronte

[poliphilo]

So what was that? I'm pretty sure it wasn't any kind of sparrow. Too slim,  bill the wrong shape.  I flick through the pages of my bird book and find the closest match. Speckledy, pale brown with an even paler stripe across the eye. If I'm right that was a twite. Wow! But there are so many species of approximately the same size and approximately the same colouring. Charlotte Bronte was talking the other day about a hedge full of "small brown birds". That sort of amused me.  So, you weren't sure either, were you, Charlotte?

Call yourself a countrywoman!

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I believe that even today, birders refer to SBJs (small brown jobs).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I take comfort from that. :)