sound world wrote:You don't mean a magpie?? (look on the list).Loads of them around all year.Wouldn't be scared of a pussycat,and would probably eat one if they were a bit smaller
Um, no Dave, I know what magpies are.
These birds are bigger than sparrows but not nearly the size of starlings, very well-shaped heads/bodies, only black and white.
Maybe it's only me that can see them.
It sounds to me like a Pied Wagtail (commonly known as the Willy Wagtail)cos its tail wags up and down as it hops about the place.Our village street is full of them.
Heres some piccies-
Any self-respecting natural pond is likely to have them-except that fish and newts eat frogspawn,so make that every other natural pond.
There must be some in Norway?
'Papa, I know there's a frog on my toe. Maybe I'll call him Jethro. Maybe I'll grow up to be wise and good as he, and maybe he'll come back after you're long gone.'
Ice, you were the one most tender with the rivers.
You, the roof of the waves, layer after layer after layer ...
The back garden is a mass of yellow ragwort plants....erm weeds.....at the moment and several are now home to the orange/black striped Cinnabar (moth) catapillars which seem to be growing even as I watch them.
Unfortunately several have taken a dive into the pond as the wind blows the ragworts about but i've been doing my good deed of the day and have fished them out and taken them to a ragwort plant located safely well away from the pond.
