Two More Bird Snippets.

There were swallows flying around my house today. That’s unusual because they rarely come this far up from the valley bottom, and they’re one of my favourite birds.

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I saw a blue tit land on the hedge near their nest box recently. He had food in his beak, and shortly afterwards the female left the box and flew over to him. She stood there fluttering her wings, which is bird language for ‘gimme, gimme, gimme.’ So he gave her the food. I tell you, it’s a hard life being a man. All she has to do is sit on the eggs all day while he does all the work.