Sep 6th by Ian under Bird Watching, Travels, my Friends travels
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I am retyping this from the original which is a paper I helped compile for a years worth of birdwatching on Dubai's creek. I was not alone and the observations are from a small but determined party of enthusiasts who got up early on a Friday (holy day) and often took to the mud to cover the whole creek. The period was 1981 to 1982 and I believe shortly after I left the area it was declared a national park, good vision from the Maktoums. I am doing this in response to a search of my site for Dubai birds,…
Aug 21st by Ian under Travels, my Friends travels
Adults Ospreys may have gone, did see two juvs on the eyrie, and later one on the eyrie branch, it was making begging calls, but eventually flew off. On scanning the reedbeds I did pick up an Osprey on the other side of the river, one from "my" nest ? who knows. It's time we had bird rings that emitted bar codes that smart phones could pick up, now that would advance bird movement study.
No juv or adult harriers in evidence so could also be gone.
End of another nesting season, comes round so quickly! however the weather was…
Aug 7th by neilgd under Bird Watching
Tags: Fulmar, Herring Gull, Kittiwake, RSPB Fowlsheugh, Stonehaven
Jul 31st by Ian under Bird Watching, Travels, my Friends travels
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Jun 19th by Ian under Miscellaneous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0120dm1
This link to Newsweek Scotland woke me from the reverie of warm downy cosiness, minute 18 to 36 is the poignant part. Nothing less than the downfall of the euro zone. The reason I bring it to your attention it is that I believe it, and I am not so sure why, perhaps it is because I believe politicians (in general) do not understand economics. The non control of the banking system is testimony to even the monetary erudite Mr Brown's failure to understand the system, he understood how to fix it, just as well. But what this 18…
Jun 14th by Ian under Bird Watching
After some rescue gardening after my fence blew down two weeks ago, it was 10.00am before I got to the Osprey site. After Friday's weather, sat and sun were remarkably dull and on this Sunday I was cold in just a Paramo and thin polo shirt. However I did remain still for 1.5 hours observing, mainly because the male arrived shortly after my start of observation and with a decapitated largish trout. He obviously had eaten the head elsewhere and brought the rest to the family, who are two not one chick as I wrongly predicted, he continued to eat…
May 30th by Ian under Miscellaneous
I well remember the library opening in Eaglesham in the 60's, our house didn't have any readable children's books. The library's written words in accessible books made me a reader, a learner, an open door to understanding. Audio books? books on Kindle? who cares just absorb more words.
Words waiting
Hidden on closed pages
Latent power, latent influence
Just words; waiting
Waiting to be read
Waiting to be understood
Poetic words; patiently proscribed
Novel words; creative
Factual words; educative
But just print on a page
In your language
Waiting to be read
Waiting to be understood…
May 29th by Ian under Bird Watching
What windy and showery weather, not the best for an Osprey to be born into, but I seriously consider my pair now have chick/chicks. The female is shuffling around and sitting high in the cup, she is also putting her head way down between her legs. Today, Sunday 22nd she had an off the nest surveillance of what was below her whilst having a wing flap, exercise? shedding water? There is no doubt her behaviour has changed. The male also, when a crow landed near the nest site, it was quickly dispatched with some brilliant aeronautics emphasised by the windy…