Sunday, 22 November 2015

RSPB on the boil

Last night saw our first serious frost of the winter here in Epsom, so following the erection reported at reference 1, I can report this morning that the bird feeder has really sprung into life this morning, with a lot of great tits, rather small so presumably this year's birds - and some robins. One or two pigeons waddling about, wondering how they can get in on the action.

The great tits and the robins don't seem to care for inter-species feeding and the form is that the robins wait until the great tits are done.

Whereas, a little later on, the RSPC did not seem to be on the boil at all. A youngish woman, probably an inhabitant of the nearby mental estate and not a bog-standard at all, was encouraging her young boy, perhaps three years old, to charge down one of the ramps at the skate board rink at Southfield Park (gmaps 51.3433586,-0.2787464), on his small bicycle, as fast as he could possibly go. As far as I could see he had no protective gear on, apart from a bulky jacket. I thought the woman was wrong, although not so wrong that I intervened.

Reference 1: http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/rspb.html.

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