earlybirder: Flying foxes......?

Monday 11 August 2014

Flying foxes......?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/children-evacuated-from-london-hospital-ward-after-fox-falls-through-ceiling-9660729.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12573364

I have seen foxes jumping up and eating plums from a tree, playing with toys stolen from gardens and once saw one go in to McDonalds on Wealdstone High Street. Whether you love them or loathe them, there is no doubting their ability to survive in an urban world, as these two stories suggest. One regularly runs along the top humanities corridor at the school where I teach.

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Look at the sky, listen to the birds and smell the flowers....

Why the 'Earlybirder'? As a boy I slept in a room overlooking gardens and an old orchard. I preferred to sleep with the curtains open and as it became light in the morning I would get up and, armed with a heavy old pair of binoculars and an even heavier and older bicycle, head out to explore the Welsh Harp, Ruislip Lido or Cassiobury Park.

I like the exclusivity of early mornings. It's the best part of the day...the air is often still and fresh and the birdsong is not masked by the hum of lawnmowers or background hiss of traffic. The sun of a new day sheds a uniquely bright light which gives everything, from flowers to feathers, a lustre which fades in the less-forgiving light later in the day. The world belongs to you and you feel so alive. While others sleep the rest of the world awakes. To witness a sunrise, focus on the incredible richness of a nightingale's song or watch a newly-hatched mandarin chick dry in the warmth of a pool of morning sun is to experience life at its purest. Bed can wait...

Monday 11 August 2014

Flying foxes......?

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