Spider Shadow……Better Than The Telly…..Anthropocene?.......
by Bernie Bell - 08:53 on 10 March 2024
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Better Than The Telly…..
This time of year, watching the garden is better than watching the telly!
Yesterday morning, over the hill behind our house, a Hoodie was having a go at a Raven, while Rookie flew around them - possibly encouraging the Hoodie. The Hoodies and Rookie tolerate each other in the garden, but they’re not prepared to let the Raven join the club. We see the Raven sometimes but it’s not a regular visitor as the Hoodies and Rookie are.
Mike hoped to get a pic. of all three of them in the air together, but just caught what I think is a wonderful, clear image of the deep black Raven against the deep blue sky…
The Hoodie and Aubers the pheasant have a ‘face off’ over the bird food sometimes, and Aubers always wins. He just looks, and the Hoodie backs off - literally hopping backwards sometimes, just to be on the safe side!
There’s a lot going on in the garden at the moment – birds pairing up and claiming their territories.
Also yesterday, we saw a male Sparrow-hawk perched in one of the Sycamore trees….
Not a very good pic - but you can see the distinctive eye. The interesting thing is …so far, we’ve only seen a female in or flying over our garden.
This is an extract from m’blog last August… http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16440
“Monday lunchtime - a gang of sparrers were bathing in the Hedgehog’s dish – some in the dish, some post-bathing preening on the terrace, a couple of young ones perched in the bushes being fed when….. suddenly….. they all dived into the bushes – just in time as the Sparrow-hawk landed on the near-by fence, paused momentarily, then dive-bombed the bushes, twice. No luck, as the growth is tightly packed. She went back to perch on the fence then flew away – no doubt noting the spot for next time she’s passing.
This all happened within about 10 ft. of our front door.
All was still for about half an hour, then we saw a sparrer peeking out of the top of the bushes, looking about warily, then they all emerged - cheeping loudly and flew away.
Mike described the bushes as being the sparrer’s ‘air-raid shelter’!”
Now, there’s a male – it’s Spring and maybe a young Sparrow-hawk’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of….
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Anthropocene?
https://earthlogs.org/2024/03/08/the-anthropocene-epoch-bites-the-dust/
Just my view – I thought it fitted well. In, say the last couple of hundred years or so, humans have caused as much change to the ‘skin’ of the earth as previous epochs have caused. And they are still doing so. Just my view.
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