“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I've a Spotted flycatcher in the garden and I'm so excited. These days I'm lucky if I see one all summer in all my birding travels. I'll be putting open fronted boxes up. 🪶
The day before yesterday I was telling a school group how elusive badgers are and that in all my time wildlife watching I'd only ever seen one when not driving.
I just saw one running across a field.
In the hour between games I got the washing up done and got a pasta bake made from scratch and into the oven literally as kick off happened. Dadding the shit out of it today.
Soras are small, robin sized birds, in the rail family and they love reeds and marsh grasses!
They are rarely seen as they nest in the reeds, live in the reeds and rarely come out.
This Sora was slowly wading through the grasses by the marsh edge looking for insects. 🪶
