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Title: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Bea on February 23, 2009, 10:34:39 AM
Its almost March, which means its almost the start of the tourist / birding season here & i'll be having to swap my keyboard for a the teapot and my mouse for a rolling pin as I do the catering for the twice weekly cruise boat visits we have from april onwards and its lambing soon, so ill be in sleep deprivation mode for a few weeks.

Also have to learn a tune thats currently being written as a gift from all of us here on the isle to one of our neighbours who are having their 40th anniversary in july.

And there's also the acre of veg garden that'll be insisting on taking up a lot of my time. Normal playtime shalt resume in autumn ! but i should manage a morning or two a week and the odd evening.


Bea
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Troop on February 23, 2009, 06:51:48 PM
Birding season

What kind of Birds do you have where you live? I have great interest in this. I have been watching the Arctic Tundra Swans here for the last month or so. They enjoy our warm winter climate here in the.
(They are confused, I don't find it warm here)
In the summer, the Artic Terns will return and nest near my home. Birds fascinate me.  ;D
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Ian James on February 23, 2009, 07:05:43 PM
www.fairisle.org.uk

I was looking at this about a week ago, there's a birding place there.  The wolf is dying to go.
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Bea on February 23, 2009, 08:53:49 PM
Artic skua are due to arrive in a few weeks.... The hills are alive !
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Troop on February 23, 2009, 09:07:15 PM
Wow! Nice isle there!  ;D I will have to go on a birding safari there one day.
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Troop on February 23, 2009, 09:12:07 PM
Bea, do you know where I can get any info. on the Fair Isle Wren?
I also did a little basic reasearch and found that the Arctic Tern nests on Fair Isle. Fascinating bird. They travel over 20,000 miles per year, spending most of their life in-flight.

Two things catch my attention. Birds and purple shoes.
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Bea on February 23, 2009, 09:44:56 PM
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1898

http://www.davegifford.co.uk/index.php?showimage=224
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Bea on February 23, 2009, 09:46:34 PM
We have one here troop, usually see her in the mornings when im having my *quiet time* coffee. If im really lucky, some morning she will let me take a pic of her now thats shes getting used to me.
Title: Re: Pre - warning, my playtime is about to take its seasonal slump
Post by: Bea on February 23, 2009, 09:47:29 PM
ohhh meant to say, artic terns, here we call them Tirrins.  Theres many a good shetland fiddle tune been written in honor of the return of the tirrins
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