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Originally Posted by The Jolly Swagman  G'day Keith from another new member and maybe the most distant one from m here Queensland. Your youthful surroundings sound like mine. All my childhood hedges and forest have long since gone. However, I left them behind to replace them with the bush of Australia  . Hope you enjoy your stay...P.s. my name is also Keith |
Here is where I lived as a child, surrounded my fields and woods, it was great. The garden is slightly different now, as the new owners took away the holly hedge and the nice big apple tree in the garden, that I had a swing attached to.
I still would love to be back there, but as it was in the middle of nowhere, I needed a ~7 mile bus ride into school. It was a tied cottage (my Dad was a gardener for a rich person) and when my Dad's boss died, my parents moved into a town. It was just that nearly every day I would see, Robins, Blackbirds, Starlings, Blue Tits, Marsh Tits, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Treecreepers, Nuthatches, 3 types of Woodpecker, Jays, Greenfiches, Siskins, Barn and Tawny Owls, Buzzards, Kestrels............. I could go on, but I am depressing myself again. I think you get the drift. I did a five hour sponsored birdwatch for the YOC once and found 114 species!! Will they still be there now I wonder?
Anyway, must go lunch beckons. I have some threads to read, as I have a few things I want to talk about and want to know other poster's opinions. I just don't want to start up a new thread, if it's been mentioned before!
Keith