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[CLKD]

There's plenty of wild food for them right now. 

[jaypo]

Yet another bird banged into a window but an upstairs one,young thrush,couldn’t save it,think the fall from a height on top of hitting the window was too much for it 😢

[CLKD]

Some birds are not meant to survive. 

[CLKD]

Ladybirds: everywhere  .  3 days last week was icy cold, followed by the edge of storm Amy when it blew and poured here: much warmer the last couple of days, and out they have popped  . 

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Aaaargghhhh I have a ladybird phobia since I was 4. Went for a walk with my son over mousehold last week in a sunny day and they were all over the bandstand. Luckily he saw them first so warned me ‘not to come over here!’ It’s been a lot of years trying to explain my fear of them  to incredulous bystanders……..

[Minusminnie]

At age 4 was it the nursery rhyme “Ladybird ladybird fly away home …..etc
Like most nursery rhymes rooted in something & not always that comforting.

[jaypo]

It was even on the news,never seen them swarm like that before.
Sorry Fuzzwhizzer 🙀

[CLKD]

Except in the hot Summer of 1976.  Which went on for weeks 

Things that flutter or crawl or scurry stems back to our Cavemen days ..........

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Yes I firmly and traumatically remember that 70’s summer of difficulty! Got forced to sit outside by ‘well-meaning’ friends mums. Remember being at Cromer cricket pitch when my dad’s team were playing there,  I had to retreat to the hot car. Terrified. A mum coaxed me out and I got as far as the picnic rug, saw a few and legged it back to the car. I’ve had a few incidents over the years on the Norfolk coast. I am proud of my children as they haven’t inherited it and through the years they have rescued me with mild amusement but always understanding too. I used to love them as a toddler but had a lot if them I played with and I think the neighbour boy told me horror stories about them and I proceeded to have extreme nightmares for a long time. On the plus side I used it as a subject in an essay once and got a top mark😂😂😂😂

[CLKD]

You've seen sunshine at Cromer    .  fear is irrational. 

We were walking on Cromer beach in 1991 [I think] in Feb in shirt sleeves it was so warm.  A few days later, lorries were being blown over in one of the fiercest of winds ever recorded in England!

[Fuzzwhizzer]

It’s got its own micro climate! Used to take the kids there in the summer a lot. Nice little boating pond cafe. And if course the🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[CLKD]

 .   We used to go to the Zoo when we were kids, run by Olga Kerr, Cocoa the Clown's daughter. 

Lots of goldfinches here, the more feeders I put up the more seem to arrive 

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Ooh I love them they’re so beautiful. There is the Amazonia Zoo when my kids were younger they called it the ‘one lizard zoo!’ It’s not quite that sparse though!

[CLKD]

Gosh it's years since we went there.  Several UK animal collections are up for sale for various reasons 

A charm of goldfinches

[Fuzzwhizzer]

Ooh a Charm how lovely and fitting for such a pretty little bird. It is interesting how they arrived at these varied collective terms.