"Blob" is 'in love' .....
22nd
March 2016 (Tuesday)
.... 08.00 We have a “bright and
sunny” morning, and it’s warm; as long
as you are sheltered from the chilly Northwest breeze. Having said that .... I was ‘out’, on the
Chapel Green at 05.50, waiting for
‘sunrise’, and it was chilly then; it will be less so now. The sun appearing over the horizon was
hidden by clouds: and didn’t appear
above those clouds for another ten minutes:
still it was bonnie and, for me,
well worth the early start to my day.
I’ll take ‘50’ in the Hutte.... after the sun has raised the
temperature, to around 65f. “Puku”
is grumbling so it must be breakfast time!
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| Sunrise from Chapel Green Earlsferry |
21.30 Oh Dearie me .... “Blob” is in the state
of being ‘in love’! He’s doing his best
to attract this ‘girl’; and she is not
playing ‘hard to get’. Jimmy and I saw
them doing the ‘Robin mating dance’ on top of the wall... “Blob” was doing most
of the dancing, but she (the hussy) was egging him on. They never got to the bit where he ‘warms
his feet’ .... a Jackdaw came down a
nd both Robins took orf..... no doubt to
continue their ‘courtship’ somewhere away from Jackdaws! Yes
I can imagine the sound of “Blob”
wedding bells in tomorrow’s dawn chorus;
if he’s giving it laldie from the top of the Rowan tree I will know he’s
got himself a ‘mate’.
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| Early morning sunlit Earlsferry |
Unless I’m mistaken, “Blob” is descended from “Auld
Blob”, who disappeared last Autumn
(2015); he would be six years old,
having been hatched the year Maggie died 2009..... a good
age for a Robin.
When
Jimmy and I got back from t Andrews Hospital, this afternoon (where Jimmy had a
check up appointment), I started Jim’s
‘buggy’: Jim and Myra should be back home
at the end of the week, after a break in the sun. They will be glad to get back home to The
Royal Burgh, and “Sooper Dog”, in time for Easter.
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| Warm looking golf course |
The
barometer is ‘gaun back’, which means a change in the weather.... I’m hoping
it’s not ‘wet and windy’ again. I
suppose we shouldn’t be surprised to get some wind .... there’s always wind
around equinox time.
Photographs
: Top – Sunrise from Chapel Green, Middle – early morning light on Earlsferry, and
Bottom – a cosy looking golf course, though it wasn’t that warm at the time.
