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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bill moss" data-source="post: 1347717" data-attributes="member: 28305">HI folks,I've very much enjoyed reading all about you lot and your early memories, thank you.What can I add? Well you all know by now about my Uncle Arthur and my memories are mainly tied up with trips with him. Four do stick more than the rest and two are birds. 1. Hearing my first Nightingale. 2 sitting at the side of a field in the sunshine (with flask and sarnies) and watching Lapwings coming and going to their nests, with every now and again one doing that fantastic display flight.The non-birds ones? Climbing up to a Squirrels' drey to bring down a young Squirrel so that we could photograph it (yes I know). They were well-grown and scattered but I managed to catch one; gave it to my Uncle to hold while I took the picture. It bit him! Only time I ever heard him swear (I didn't know the word then anyway) and he let go; no picture. And the highlight; finding a Dormouse asleep in his little nest (you must remember that all this was about 70 years ago). We had a careful look at him and left him to it. Next time that we went to that wood, about 3 weeks later, he was gone, just the empty nest.BillCouldn't find a photo of me at 11ish, will this do? (1927)</blockquote>