Been busy and too tired to turn the computer on at night. Perhaps it's my age, yet I think that's the problem I'm getting old. But on the good side I'm getting old and I'm here to get old and that's good. The work has been getting less now, but that's normal for the time of year, agriculture is still very seasonal and it will pick up as the seasons turn. I am now seeing young magpies flying about and every time I see one I wonder how many song thrush chicks have gone into producing one more unnecessary magpie. If everyone destroyed a magpie in early spring I wonder how big an increase there would be in the population of small birds. But on the good side I suspect our local blackbird population is busy raising the second clutch of the year. In this area we do remove as many magpies as possible. I haven't seen any young buzzards yet but going by the number of buzzards I'm seeing there should be some. I'm also seeing barn owls on a regular basis so they must be feeding young. The population seems to be recovering from the two very hard winters we had in 2008 and 2009. The poor things won't eat road kill, unlike tawny owls, so a large part of the population starved to death, very sad.
See you tomorrow.
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