19th to 21st February
Soliloquy from Carousel Rodgers & Hammerstein
Another rest period so a train back home to
Warwick. The rest included the celebration of my super Son, Joshua's birthday.
Happy birthday Son.
There was also a letter from Bill Oddie; a
lovely letter saying that he was off for a holiday to Guatemala and that he
would be keeping up with my blog. He wished me success and he said that he
would be sponsoring me so much a bird. He also said how much he loved birding
at Upton Warren in the Sixties; "rarely saw another birder!" Upton
Warren has been my patch on and off for the years from when I was a teenager. A
wonderful saltwater nature reserve in Worcestershire, salt laid down when The
Midlands was an ocean millions of years ago, percolates up to form briny
scrapes. Avocets breed there in good numbers every year and their successful
rearing of their youngsters to fledging age makes Upton Warren one of the
country's highest productivity per pair.
I should say here that one of the big
motivations for what I was doing was to find my own birds and Bill's
philosophy, mentioned so often in his autobiographies, on doing so helped
formulate the idea. Thanks, Bill, for the letter. It meant a lot to me. Still
does.
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