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Yo Ho Ho Etc

September 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

A reader asked about a photo in my recent article about a shrew I met while walking in London. The photo was originally posted to WhatsApp, a great tool that I use to broadcast photos and the odd note to attest to my continuing safe progress, remaining both vertical and mentate. Cold Blooded is another photo from the same wet walk.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, kevin barry, london loop, photo, rspb, thames, walking

Bird Migration

August 15, 2020 by Simon Robinson 4 Comments

Jetting from London to Houston, with noise cancelling headphones isolating me from both a snoring neighbour and the rumble of our propulsion, I imagined a Bantu throwing a spear at a stork. I also wondered what it was like in 1822 when no one could imagine a White Stork making an annual round trip after breeding in Germany, going south of the equator in East Africa to avoid European winters. At that stage in our understanding, the ancient Greek idea that birds turned into fish for the winter was still popular.

Flamingoes over Lake Naivasha in Kenya 2005
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, birds, evolution, melvyn bragg, migration, photos, rspb, tim birkhead, travel

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