Merry Christmas from the Barleys! 4 comments
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Foussais-Payre recently hosted a show-jumping event in one of the fields near our house. Unfortunately it coincided with our ill-fated attempts to dig out a space for our pool, so we never made it there. Well, someone went and has posted the video. Here it is for those of us who couldn’t make it. We’ll try next year!
Spotted: The happy hoopoe 6 comments
There has been much a bit of excitement at our house over the last couple of months due to the arrival of a Hoopoe. The hoopoe is a rather odd-looking bird, one that we had never seen before as they rarely venture up to england. They do migrate up to europe at nesting time though, so we were rather delighted when we first spotted him pecking around outside out house, looking for worms.
We have only ever spotted him a couple of times, although we have heard him more often thanks to his “woop-woop-woop” call. When I first heard it I thought it was an alarm clock going off somewhere in the house! After hunting high and low, I discovered him sitting on next-door’s roof. Sadly, by the time I got the video ready, he had flown off
Well, this morning he returned and, thanks to our shiny new camcorder, I managed to capture him in close-up. I apologies now as this was first thing in the morning so the camera-work is a bit shaky, and everyone was eating breakfast with the TV on, so it’s a bit noisy. But I’m glad we managed to get some close-ups of this guy as he really is quite a special bird.
httpv://www.youtube.com/v/8Bjcup51N5o