Richard Bell's Wild West Yorkshire nature diary
Sunday,
18th March, 2007
IT’S
TOO COLD & WINDY to sit and draw outside, so I’ve come down to the
greenhouse. There’s a clear blue sky above me while to the north, cumulus
clouds are being blown along from the north-west at such a speed that each cloud
tends to topple forward, dragging a short tail behind it.
The greenhouse acts as a hide – a blackbird scuttles along the path alongside just 3 or 4 feet from me.
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horse whinnies, a crow caws, sparrows chirrup
in raucous argument.
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A sparrowhawk soars overhead dipping down towards the wood. A blackbird splutters in alarm. Wood pigeons seem to have paired and to be driving away their rivals.
A great tit makes its way along the hawthorn hedge.
*The old phrase is 'People who live in glass houses should not throw stones’.
