I was up early this morning and decided to walk down to the paper shop and collect the paper. It was a wonderfully uplifting experience - the dawn chorus was in full swing and it was almost deafening but at the same time beautiful. It never ceases to amaze me how such small creatures as birds are able to produce melodious sounds that carry. I was walking next to my local main road the other day, the normal traffic was roaring by and yet from the other side of the carriageway I could hear the song of a goldfinch.
So this put me into a good mood and after breakfast I decided to make some photographs in our garden. We had this designed and built last year with on of the key design features was the encouragement of wildlife. To date it has been a real success and we have a wide variety of fauna visiting. However, one of the down sides of this is that well, not to put too fine a point on it, they poop all over the place. Now one good shower and this is usually washed away but none the less it is a problem. So this morning out I strode, snapping away at the flowers and plants and then i noticed a strange foot print on the path. At first I couldn't quite work it out and then it dawned on me - I had just walked into a freshly deposited pile of bird poo. Great. Still this is a price worth paying.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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