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I came from the brown bogland and the bog in me remain
And in my flights of fancy I can see the snipe again
Probing with his long bill for worms and such in the soft mud by the drain
And the blackbird on the hedgerow is singing his song of rain.

I came from the brown bogland where the curlew in the May
Above his marshy breeding ground his flute like music play
And in the rushy meadow in the long grass by the hedgerow
The wild and shy cock...

Francis Duggan

The nicest Season for one to die must surely be the Spring
When the Parklands wear their Wildflowers and song birds pipe and sing
And young birds are chirping in their nests and the sparrows all the day
Are busy under the house eaves weaving their nests of hay.

If I'm not burned to ashes then why not bury me
In that old graveyard on the hill preferably by a tree
Where in Spring birds will build their nest and sing their songs above where I lay...

Francis Duggan

Just a quick note to mention a wonderful sight on Friday afternoon.

I made the most of a rare sunny day this summer and took the afternoon off work and headed straight down to Littlehampton and walked over to West Beach.

As I got to the beach, I noticed a few sand martins flying near me. Thinking there were only about a dozen there, I trained my binoculars along the length of the sand dunes to see that the place was swarming with them! I started walking along...

Stoggler

Hello !

Just got back from a Birding Tour on the Brazilian Northeast: Couldn't be better - We had about 300 Hyacinth Macaws!!!

We saw them flying in flocks, perched on cactus, feeding in Palm trees, grazzing wiht the cattle and even perched on telephone wires!!!

Yours,

Paulo Boute

Paulo Boute

Chengdu Bird guiding – chengduuk@hotmail.com - Chengdu, Sichuan, the gateway to Tibet - to see more travel pics of Sichuan go to my travel blog at - http://chengdutravel.blogspot.com/
To see more of our birding pics go to - http://sichuanbirds.blogspot.com/
Apologies to our blogspot readers - although it's good news that China readers can again view Flickr images, I'm afraid blogspot is still blocked by the Chinese censors - so at the moment it’s hard to update our Sichuanbirds site...

china guy