slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Juggling. I can do "two balls, one hand" if I've got a lot of space, but I've never mastered three balls. When it goes well, it's incredibly relaxing and satisfying.
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newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
How many?
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Didn't count them as they were a fair way away on the other side... possibly 3 or 4, unless they were standing in a line!
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
So too few to mention...?
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
...but then again.
[I walked straight into that - excellent!]
[I walked straight into that - excellent!]
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Like the great tit you are, you swallow’d that one hook line and sinker!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
We've got a bird bath in the back garden and it attracts a lot of rarer species... nuthatches, dunnocks, wrens, fieldfares, finches and every tit going- they bring their own soap, and love Mrs A_T's fat balls.
We don't see the crowd of starlings that used to crash in like a rowdy bunch of hooligans anymore- not even one, and house sparrows have all but disappeared too, though magpies, collared doves, pigeons, thrushes, blackbirds and robins are thriving, and we have a large family of jackdaws that clear everything in their path. The rarest to visit was a red- breasted merganser, but sadly that was a corpse near the stream.
We don't see the crowd of starlings that used to crash in like a rowdy bunch of hooligans anymore- not even one, and house sparrows have all but disappeared too, though magpies, collared doves, pigeons, thrushes, blackbirds and robins are thriving, and we have a large family of jackdaws that clear everything in their path. The rarest to visit was a red- breasted merganser, but sadly that was a corpse near the stream.
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
It's joyous isn't it? And it's on your doorstep. If you watched Countryfile on Sunday the first article about Lizards and the Blue-tit in the cig box ARE our doorstep, Simon Taylor Jones lives on the seafront here and most of his reports are always from just down the road.
I like the different perspective it gives to familiar surroundings.
Rocky
Hello decadence
And it makes life less stressful - the time goes slower. It also stops me thinking about me....there’s a beautiful world out there.
I’ll have a look at Countryfile on catch-up. Thanks
matticus
Guru
I can't do Waiting hobbies. I love nature - being in it, looking at it - but twitching and fishing, my brain doesn't do patience with an uncertain outcome. I really enjoyed the "action" of fishing with my Dad! But couldn't face the waiting. Daft hobby...
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
I joined 'Kent Birding' on fb (assume there are similar pages for other parts of the country), it's been a great source of information and learning. Some of the photography is outstanding.
Dawn Works here: https://sbbot.org.uk/
When the Virus abates you'll have to come visit :-)
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Not a bird watcher as such, but, we do enjoy walking and cycling in the countryside, inevitably, you do see birds. We have been to some idyllic spots, in various parts of UK, where, it might be expected, a kingfisher might be seen, but, no, the only one I have ever seen, "in the flesh", was perched on a tree, alongside the River Don, in Jarrow, a not very idyllic location!, but, presumably, there where fish to be had
Sign LanguageAs a student I memorized the first 20 chemical elements. (didn't take long, I'm not very diligent!)
Can anyone suggest a similar - hopefully useful*-ish - challenge?
(*I don't use this knowledge much, but it's great for a few "free" points on University Challenge)
