Four White Geese Friday, 26th December 2003
When another couple of birdwatchers come along the geese try their
luck with them. These people tell us that a friend of their's has
been keeping an eye on the six or seven geese that live around his
village. He counted them again after Christmas: they were still
all there. Fish and Fowl
A Feathered Phenomenom
But it's an enormous prize Turkey, rather than a goose, that the reformed Scrooge buys for the Cratchit family on Christmas Day. A Carp for ChristmasOur next door neighbours had a carp for their Christmas dinner this year. I'd never heard of carp as a Christmas dinner before but a friend in Poland tells me that there it is traditional to eat them. They had three roasted carp on Christmas Eve and I'm told they tasted great. Birds at AnglersHere's a list my birdwatching friend John made of the birds we saw this morning on Anglers Lake and Wintersett Reservoir, at the Country Park feeding station, Haw Park and the hedgerows and fields between. It was very quiet for birds in Haw Park: while walking a one mile circuit of the plantations we didn't add a single bird to our list.
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We're
actually at Anglers to spot wildfowl but these domestic
geese spot us and come gaggling towards us. They're especially
interested in me when I take out a white plastic bag but this doesn't
contain breadcrumbs: it's only my sketchbook.
The Sherlock Holmes story, The Blue Carbuncle, starts with
the mystery of a Christmas goose and a black felt hat that have
been dropped at the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street.
On the day after Boxing Day Holmes and Watson follow the trail of
clues to a poultry stall at Covent Garden Market.
In
Dicken's A Christmas Carol:
