[Leica] CV-19 Autumn Bird Feast - Pyracantha Coccinea

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Philippe, Don and Ric, but Philippe surely you know me and my 
meticulous preparation in these matters?

After all, I am the son of a father whose feathered protégé finished 4th 
in the best talking bird competition in Dublin's Evening Herald in 1953. 
His babbling budgie called Barrie (yes, Barrie Barry) could converse in 
Gaelic, and included in his repertoire "One, Two, Four, I can say Three, 
but I won't" as well as spouting some lines of T.S. Eliot's The Love 
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. It's many times I heard Barrie spouting "I 
should have been a pair of ragged claws, Scuttling across the floors of 
silent seas." from his cage, before he keeled over from his perch and a 
permanent silence struck him. At least I think he was a him, but I never 
really checked.

Rooted in such avian articulacy, it was a small matter to clarify the 
expected prospects for winter with Robbie, my resident robin, who in 
turn was backed up noisily by Trump the thrush and Giuliani the 
goldfinch. Biden the blackbird saw the crowd, but doesn't seem to want 
to get involved. He told me privately that he thought they were two 
faced liars, but didn't disagree that that winter might be tough. As he 
said, "Now might be the winter of our discontent - life's a beech" as he 
flew off into the hedge.

Douglas



On 22/10/2020 19:16, Philippe via LUG wrote:
> Well Douglas, I thnk the birds might object to your « hard winter for everyone comment ».
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> But I fully subscribe as to the covid19 thing that screws our lives up, and kills so many.
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> Keep safe my friend.
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> Amities
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> Philippe, on curfew from tomorrow night till … ???
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>> Le 22 oct. 2020 à 14:06, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a écrit :
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>> We're back under Level 5 lockdown here in Ireland, so I better resume my CoVid Chronicles.
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>> My pyracantha is fruiting well - a mast year I think. It's going to be a hard winter for everyone.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Autumn+Bird+Feast+Pyracantha+Coccinea.jpg.html
>> Fuji X100S. Can be seen large.
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>> Douglas
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