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Shed some Light

Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Friday, 2nd January 2009

BLUE TITS are coming to the sunflower heart feeders. I’m trying to be honest about their true colours as I see them on a dull winter’s afternoon. It’s not the bright blue cap and yellow breast of the idealised image that I have in mind.

And to be honest, I can’t see the red on the robin’s breast as it comes to the feeder.

A blackbird perches on the shed roof - no problems in seeing his colour - although, as the light continues to fade, I’m working from memory as I add watercolour to my drawing of the shed itself.

A wren hops along at the edge of the patio. No, ‘hop’ probably gives the wrong impression; the way it keeps pausing and investigating is mouselike.

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