As I step out in the cool-by-comparison of early morning, two blue-tailed bee-eaters perch atop a red and white telecom mast, giving their loud sandpapery bleat as they take flight. A mile or two to sea lowers a slaty rainstorm. It seems unlikely the promised rain could make this place any more damp; though it might move the damp around a little.
News comes from Yorkshire of early-arriving sand martins and avocets back at their breeding site; and from the USA of spring amphibians with poetic names: New Jersey chorus frog, wood frog, spring peeper and southern leopard frog. While I sweat out the Sri Lankan spring, keep on keeping me posted of spring far to the north.
News comes from Yorkshire of early-arriving sand martins and avocets back at their breeding site; and from the USA of spring amphibians with poetic names: New Jersey chorus frog, wood frog, spring peeper and southern leopard frog. While I sweat out the Sri Lankan spring, keep on keeping me posted of spring far to the north.
New today
Birds | ||
343 | blue-tailed bee-eater | Merops philippinus |
2012 Totals
Mammals: 33
Birds: 343
Reptiles: 6
Amphibians: 3
Fish: 1
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