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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20 647 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	8 Feb 2020 17:53
	At the bus stop this afternoon, there was a buzzard, waaay up, casually 'riding the wind'. :-D :-D
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16 020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	8 Feb 2020 17:22
	Making a withy basket.
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 2 676 Send Message	Andysmum	Report	8 Feb 2020 15:26
	It's not a bad day here, but VERY windy. I had trouble standing up when I moved away from the shelter of the house. All the smaller birds are keeping hidden in the hedge or close to the fence, but the larger species, mainly rooks and gulls, are braving the wind. The rooks are having a hard time of it, being swept along where they don't want to be and struggling to get back where they were, only to be swept along again. I don't know why they don't give up!! The gulls, on the other hand, seem to be having a wonderful time, They are bigger and can make more headway against the wind, climbing high into the sky and then swooping down again in huge spirals. I have been fascinated watching them.