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Bird Spotting
Richard Bell’s nature diary, North Yorkshire, Thursday, 11th September 2008
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A FEMALE blackbird that we’ve seen for the first time this morning has three white
spots on her back. A male -
This young goldfinch on the sunflower hearts feeder doesn’t seem too healthy. It sat fluffed up and not very active, feeding lethargically. I walked up to the feeder to check it out. It appeared to have some inflammation around its left eye but it flew off when I got within a few feet of it, so it can’t be too ill.
After the Break
There’s always so much to do when you get back from a break. We’d only been away
for five days and we’d harvested what was ripe before we set off but in 5 or 10 minutes
down the garden I came back with a veg box-
The larger of the two kohl rabi on the top left had gone soft inside; we seem to
do better with golf-
A Stroll Around the Coca Cola Factory
We’re walking and checking routes for my next booklet of local walks and I’m enjoying working on the maps because this time I’m going for colour. Here’s a detail from one of the shorter circuits which returns along a strip of countryside hemmed in by the M1 motorway on one side and world’s largest Coca Cola factory on the other, which is surprisingly well hidden on the ground.