tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post1313371303742281906..comments2024-03-28T13:34:43.793+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: PoemYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-31507008317186767022018-06-05T14:30:34.846+01:002018-06-05T14:30:34.846+01:00Well...that was 2015...and perhaps the article ref...Well...that was 2015...and perhaps the article referred to the city of Sydney. Where I live is not a city...it really is mostly rural.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-78229580569054774432018-06-05T10:44:47.668+01:002018-06-05T10:44:47.668+01:00Apparently, there is much evidence that points to ...Apparently, there is much evidence that points to a rapid decline in songbird numbers in Arizona Mr C. It sounds like they have avoided the ornithologists by congregating at your mansion.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-40910842059012088502018-06-05T10:42:12.276+01:002018-06-05T10:42:12.276+01:00You are fortunate to still have so many birds in y...You are fortunate to still have so many birds in your neighbourhood Lee for this was a line from The Sydney Morning Herald in 2015:- "Sightings of some of Australia's most common birds, including those that have inspired folk songs and become mascots of football teams, are decreasing in parts of Australia, according to a major report on the health of the country's bird population."Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-66819251076728906642018-06-05T10:38:58.283+01:002018-06-05T10:38:58.283+01:00Pesticides, herbicides, loss of habitat, mobile ph...Pesticides, herbicides, loss of habitat, mobile phone signals, sourcing food, pet cats, foxes, climate change, shooting. It's so hard to be a songbird these days.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-89242599125888360432018-06-05T10:36:36.025+01:002018-06-05T10:36:36.025+01:00In the thirty years we have lived in this house we...In the thirty years we have lived in this house we have continuously watched the birds in our garden and seen the decline. We never see starlings any more.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32858236726886810502018-06-05T10:35:24.135+01:002018-06-05T10:35:24.135+01:00Let's hope you see her in the winter ahead.Let's hope you see her in the winter ahead.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39752723828999455692018-06-05T10:34:31.617+01:002018-06-05T10:34:31.617+01:00Birds have had so much to contend with in this ove...Birds have had so much to contend with in this overpopulated world.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-42829138426232875112018-06-05T09:46:14.048+01:002018-06-05T09:46:14.048+01:00£0 years ago Corncrakes were heard every year here...£0 years ago Corncrakes were heard every year here on Lewis. I can't recall when I last heard one. Those near my house have gone which is odd because the land is now wild; the sheep having gone too.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-80536948026406520022018-06-05T08:05:31.473+01:002018-06-05T08:05:31.473+01:00I remember my grandpa's garden having Willy Wa...I remember my grandpa's garden having Willy Wagtails, Blue Wrens and Sparrows. My kids are so unfamiliar with all of them that they think ordinary sparrows are exotic. <br />It's happening every wherekyliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964475783207438103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-27363515104652048092018-06-05T07:38:13.049+01:002018-06-05T07:38:13.049+01:00I saw a robin hopping on my balcony this past wint...I saw a robin hopping on my balcony this past winter; so precious it was like a gift. <br />Greetings Maria xMariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01525028325800849416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-36558137061654987882018-06-04T23:51:47.271+01:002018-06-04T23:51:47.271+01:00Thoughtful. Things are disappearing while we liste...Thoughtful. Things are disappearing while we listen!Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-1930579942353649412018-06-04T23:29:33.506+01:002018-06-04T23:29:33.506+01:00Sweet tweetSweet tweetJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-88027443584251159072018-06-04T23:27:51.510+01:002018-06-04T23:27:51.510+01:00Fortunately, around here where I live birds are pr...Fortunately, around here where I live birds are prolific in number and variety, and melodious in song. Often, at night, owls can be heard conversing in the trees in the vacant bushland across the way. They've many a wise tale to share.<br /><br />I hope it stays this way...sometimes "hope" is all we have, as flimsy and as flighty as it appears to be.<br /><br />Everything is changing. Frustratingly and sadly, it's not always for the better....<br /><br />Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44925386844274487072018-06-04T23:22:47.613+01:002018-06-04T23:22:47.613+01:00I have been surprised to hear the trilling done by...I have been surprised to hear the trilling done by the house finches here. Plus we have mockingbirds. Still lots of birdsong in Arizona.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72328441833500972262018-06-04T21:05:22.046+01:002018-06-04T21:05:22.046+01:00And that's another thing that Joni Mitchell sa...And that's another thing that Joni Mitchell sang in "Big Yellow Taxi".... "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?"Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-59715271060447626992018-06-04T20:25:02.682+01:002018-06-04T20:25:02.682+01:00This is so very sad. A third of the songbirds gone...This is so very sad. A third of the songbirds gone in a mere fifteen years. What do we lose in a lifetime. How sad for the birds and other creatures. How sad for our future generations. You don't know what you have until you lose it.Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17738727252267659979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-22847109952389899412018-06-04T17:59:02.771+01:002018-06-04T17:59:02.771+01:00Yes...progress but progress to what? I shudder to ...Yes...progress but progress to what? I shudder to think. Even now some of New Zealand's most amazing creatures can only be seen in a museum. And what did Joni Mitchell sing?<br />… They took all the trees <br />And put 'em in a tree museum <br />And they charged the people <br />A dollar and a half just to see 'em…Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-86774488723782709492018-06-04T17:26:16.915+01:002018-06-04T17:26:16.915+01:00I have never lived anywhere as long as here on my ...I have never lived anywhere as long as here on my mountain. There are not many songbirds that dwell here at this altitude but some at least pass through in the spring. A very few even stay long enough to give birth to fledgelings. One of the things I will enjoy when we move down the slope is more songbirds talking to me when I am quiet.<br /><br />Our area has changed so much in other ways. People have moved in and thrown out some wildflower seeds that the elk avoid so much that they have changed the pathways that used to show their yearly track. The fox have died off in the last four years because of mange which means we have had an explosion of chipmunk and rabbit. <br /><br />Progress?Peace Thymehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17361079101751470855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-87604562925399828082018-06-04T16:43:30.919+01:002018-06-04T16:43:30.919+01:00You are very fortunate Jennifer. Do not be surpris...You are very fortunate Jennifer. Do not be surprised if your house is surrounded by angry French bird watchers demanding their songbirds back.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38025175987344763472018-06-04T16:41:54.129+01:002018-06-04T16:41:54.129+01:00I doubt that a soppy poem could ever make a rough-...I doubt that a soppy poem could ever make a rough-tough tobacco spittin' librarian cry. Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-71341698629380061782018-06-04T16:25:49.760+01:002018-06-04T16:25:49.760+01:00Oddly enough, we've been seeing more birds and...Oddly enough, we've been seeing more birds and a greater variety of birds at our backyard feeders than ever before. Right now fledgling cardinals, house finches, grackles, house sparrows, and mourning doves have all been frequenting our seed buffet along with their parents. It's funny to see a baby cardinal begging to an adult grackle or a squirrel! :) In addition to the family groups, we've also seen adult titmice, blue jays, downy woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers, and even some bluebirds (although the bluebirds are not at the feeders). We've also seen more fireflies this year than ever before. The only thing we haven't seen (at all!) are hummingbirds.<br /><br />Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54009517433070568412018-06-04T16:23:07.515+01:002018-06-04T16:23:07.515+01:00Don't make me cry, YP! (Seriously, like Briony...Don't make me cry, YP! (Seriously, like Briony, I find the state of wildlife awfully upsetting these days.) We do still have lots of birds in our garden, fortunately, but rather more pigeons and starlings than I would ideally like.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-64356903655996266202018-06-04T15:48:14.566+01:002018-06-04T15:48:14.566+01:00I guess that redtrat singing is an acquired taste....I guess that redtrat singing is an acquired taste.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-771951075254836942018-06-04T15:46:39.757+01:002018-06-04T15:46:39.757+01:00Not a rant Briony...a lament.Not a rant Briony...a lament.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-85082020609989016472018-06-04T14:30:47.984+01:002018-06-04T14:30:47.984+01:00The birdsong that accompanies me on my early morni...The birdsong that accompanies me on my early morning walks with Rick is sublime, I just wish the Redstarts would learn to sing in tune. Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787732343048847565noreply@blogger.com