Thursday
21st January strong S rain all day
A
day of rest, reflection and conversation, this is after twenty days
of cycling and birding. Happy with progress with the list a long way
ahead of last year and having seen some birds of quality, I spend the
day relaxing as the rain pours outside.
Physically
the parts of my body that have been aching the most, knees and hands
appreciate the respite and hopefully will show their appreciation by
not hurting so much tomorrow.
A
chance to look at some websites and blogs that I usually am too tired
to look at, the American Birding Blog is a must.
Offshoots
from that occupy some of my morning.
A
look through Birdgirl's blog is as inspiring as ever and a new blog
for me, Postive News, reflects upon positive developments in the
Nature world. http://positivenews.org.uk/tag/nature/
Sleep
is restorative and waking in the afternoon I spend the rest of the
day with the other people at the hostel. My dormitory companion, Dan,
is on his way to the Isles of Scilly and he is amazed at the
competitive world of bird listing. I show him world listers, British
carbon listers and Green listers. He tells me that his ten year old
son is only interested in watching Attenborough programmes on TV and
he has shown a keen interest in birds. Dan thinks that he will be
very interested in all that I have shown him. I hope so too. It is
always such a great thrill for me to hear of children interested in
any sort of nature.
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