tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330421081106938300.post5651289006483440526..comments2023-10-24T13:50:04.482+01:00Comments on The Birds of Kent: Great Day out yesterday 11.4.011Dave Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07602059597229800617noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330421081106938300.post-14439548676351803802011-04-12T17:19:48.071+01:002011-04-12T17:19:48.071+01:00Hello again Dave,
Bernie has just left for his j...Hello again Dave,<br /> <br />Bernie has just left for his journey back home to Suffolk, and I now have more time to write!<br /> <br />Yes it was nice to meet you and to exchange yarns! I find that very often there is a sort of snobbery in the hides, everyone talks in whipers, and looks at you oddly if you try and strike up a conversation - this happened to me only a few weeks back - it almost puts you off going, So mondays visit was a bonus when we all had a chat - very pleasant indeed.<br /> <br />Have you managed an ID on that "Duck" yet? It certainly looked like a Hybrid of any one of several species.<br />Had a look at your site - very very good, Bernie and I were looking at it last night and both agreed it was a joy to look at, and your offer of designing a similar site for me is very interesting to say the least - it occurred to me that as I have friends scattered all round the country - Scotland - Dorset - Suffolk etc, the website could be used as an indicator on how various Birds/Wildlife are doing in the given regions and may well be useful to bodies such as BTO - more of that later I guess.<br /> <br />I retire in December and plan to travel as much as I can afford to within the British Isles, this was the main reason that I got my Trailer Tent - I can just hitch it up and off I go - the only fly in the ointment is that the awning is just too much for one person to erect - so my little jaunts really need to consist of two persons - although some sites will help with this providing one gives them enough notice - OH the pangs of getting old - it is such a pain when the brain is so willing but the body is saying - "your having a laugh old son" Groan.<br /> <br />Bernie and I were watching the birds on me feeders last night when we spotted a little wood-mouse making a furtive journey from me shed to the base of the feeders - it was very comical to see - until a bloody great rat came out behind it! Now I know that rats are all around us these days, and by and large they do us no harm, but I guess they do have to be controlled, so to that end - it's off to the shops for some rat poison - which unfortunately will also take out the wood mice - I truly wish there were an alternative - sad really aint it.<br /> <br />Regards<br /> <br />Roger<br /> <br />Ps, Bernie said Hello - and goodbye - I will forward your email to hime once he is back home - so you can expect to hear from him soon. He is very knowlegeable, and his field of expertise is woodlands, plants, butterflies, insects etc.Dave Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602059597229800617noreply@blogger.com