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poliphiloThe starlings have found the suet blocks. It's like a Hitchcock movie out there.
I'm told people don't like starlings because they hang out in gangs and twitter too much. I think they're beautiful- sleek and streamlined like Concorde, with an iridescent sheen to them if you manage to get close.
The robin sits in the holly bush, a little apart, fluffs itself up and waits for them to bugger off.
I'm told people don't like starlings because they hang out in gangs and twitter too much. I think they're beautiful- sleek and streamlined like Concorde, with an iridescent sheen to them if you manage to get close.
The robin sits in the holly bush, a little apart, fluffs itself up and waits for them to bugger off.
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Date: 2004-12-12 03:58 pm (UTC)There was a children's TV programme called Magpie (1968-80)which used that verse- set to music- as its theme song. Successive generations of English children grew up singing it.
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Date: 2004-12-12 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-12 04:15 pm (UTC)http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/magpie.htm
Music clip #2 is a fragment -but the relevant fragment- of the Magpie theme.
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Date: 2004-12-12 04:47 pm (UTC)