A green woodpecker has been calling all day, and the sky is clear and blue. There’s a slight haze, but I think that’s all pollen and exhaust fumes rather than cloud.
So that’s one data point against the ‘rain bird’ theory.
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In your face, folk wisdom!
27 March 2007 – 3:42 pm
God’s cock and hen
25 July 2006 – 9:40 am
I woke up this morning to see something fluttering against the inside of the window-panes. Without my glasses, I couldn’t think what it was - it seemed too big for a moth and too small and whirring for a bird. It turned out to be a wren. They’re such nice things, but they are slightly [...]