It rained today. When it stoped raining, it rained some more, then rained again. I’ve noticed before that the bird feeders become popular when it’s raining, and today was no exception. Not counting gulls, fifteen different species came through the garden today, including lots of juveniles. I got some photos to prove it, and I’ll put them up on my other blog in the next couple of days.
For the most part they came through in mixed flocks, and managed to achieve peaceful co-existence at the feeders. The exception was a female bullfinch who bullied any other finch that came close, though seemed content with, for example, blue tits at the same feeder.
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I caught a little news today, though not much. What I saw focused on travel restrictions to and from Spain. I struggle to get excited by it: I’m not sure what bit of deadly virus spread by, amongst other things, extensive travel in confined spaces my fellow citizens fail to grasp. I get the economic importance of the travel sector, but it developed on the basis of a set of assumptions about what constitutes safe behaviour that, for the moment at least, no longer apply.
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I went for a quick walk tonight, between bursts of rain. There was a very distinct autumnal feel about the colour of light under the clouds, the tickle of drizzle on my face. More often than not I meet a fox on the walk, but the only wildlife tonight was a bat. Although traffic has picked up in the daytime, it was pretty quiet on the whole, principally because there is almost no airport noise.
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Music: I was thinking about ‘rain’ songs and, by a roundabout mental route, settled on this one. In this case we’re not really dealing with rain at all and, in any event, it’s metaphor, but that’s OK. I’ve gone for a later version than the more bombastic original on his first solo album. I have no problem with the first version, I’m just more in the mood for this one.
Is it really 40 years since I saw him perform this at the Odeon in Edinburgh? Yes it is. Peter Gabriel; Here Comes The Flood
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