Flights of the butterfly

  • Duckduck

    This is Duckdcuk, sitting on the roof ridge of a house behind me. He’s a mallard drake. He hangs out on these roofs quite a lot. All the other ducks mess about in the water and muck of the watermeadow. I don’t know if he is suffering from DBO (Duck body Odour) or some such…

  • Dark morning

    Went for a short saunter at about five a.m. A little bird was singing his head off in a tree nearby. Now, this struck me as odd. It was a very dark, cloudy morning and about two hours before dawn. No moon, no starlight. Unless the little fella was using his smartphone, how did he know to…