The sounds of nature

[soulboy118]

Morning ( just) everyone .I have just spent a pleasant 1/2 hour watching a family of swifts training to attack a swarm if miggies ( the ones that no longer seem to spatter my windshield anymore) hanging over me garden , listening ( because my garden is very quiet) to their shrill shreek you can hear the subtle differences they make as they change their angle and speed of attack , I miss the sounds of nature as walks in forests or along nature trails are no longer possible , we must enjoy what we can when we can I now have a much better appreciation of the small things in life

[knitter]

We were only commenting recently about the lack of squashed insects that used to decorate windscreen and bonnet only a few years ago.

No swifts flying this year, they used to nest on the side of the house, but now we have plastic replacement fascias and I don't think the mud sticks to them to make nests.

I have been sitting in the garden watching the sparrows though, there seem more of them about. Like you I miss woodland walks but I am lucky to have a garden even if it is small.

[soulboy118 in reply to knitter]

I have plenty of sparrows,blackbirds tits pigeons green finches and unfortunately killer cats who I shoo away , I wish people would keep cats in on a night I'm sick of finding dead birds in my garden

[Comino2]

Nature through my window is all I can watch now and being in town that is pretty limited.I have a birdtable and have house sparrows and the occasional pigeon who makes the birdtable creak with its weight.This year I have had rare visits from a blackbird and a thrush.I thought they were ground feeders who look for tasty worms in the soil so that was a treat.I also miss walking through forests with the sun glinting through the branches and seeing and hearing the forest wildlife.To sit by a stream that is tumbling down over rocks and pebbles.The smell of the leaves after a rain shower........ Better stop there getting a lump in my throat. I miss those things so much. xx

[soulboy118 in reply to Comino2]

I know how that's I feel, lots of simple pleasures are now out of reach

[Comino2 in reply to soulboy118]

They say that nothing is impossible it just needs more thought.....hmm...lowered in from a helicopter into a clearing and have an all terrain camo coloured lambretta mobility scooter waiting to get you to a log cabin deep in the woods with electric heating [sadly no log fire] a full larder,ample medication, no tv or wi fi just peace and and quiet xx

[soulboy118 in reply to Comino2]

That's lottery winning money lol

[Comino2 in reply to soulboy118]

Your right there and DLA won't cover that [sadly] xx

[soulboy118 in reply to Comino2]

They will drop us from a great height though

[Comino2 in reply to soulboy118]

Ha ha ...Touche...You have your cynical hat on xx

[Comino2 in reply to Comino2]

I keep my cynical hat in a drawer till the dreaded large brown envelope comes through my letterbox xx

[soulboy118 in reply to Comino2]

Large brown envelopes I associate with hate mail from the DWP lol

[Ergendl]

I think the windscreen design of most cars these days is better at swooshing the flies to the side rather than smashing them against the glass. I occasionally get daredevil spiders clinging desperately to the windscreen wipers or the wing mirrors.

[soulboy118 in reply to Ergendl]

It's the wing mirrors at mine that gets tbe spiders , craft birds have taken to looking there for them

[katieoxo60]

Sounds Lovely , the main birds I get are pidgeons and blue tits in the spring. Never ceases to amaze me how birds survive in all weathers .

[soulboy118 in reply to katieoxo60]

I'm always amazed at the variety I still get