Posts tagged with ‘robin’
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Birding the dictionary
18 February 2007 – 3:00 pm
I was watching a dunnock in the garden earlier
and it suddenly occured to me that there might be a parallel between the word ‘dunnock’ and ‘ruddock’ - the old name for a robin.
And having got that far, I thought maybe ‘dunnock’ derived from ‘dun cock’ and ‘ruddock’ from ‘ruddy cock’. So I got out the [...]
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 [...]