Love love love your account of your bird station Christina! We’ve been watching a noisy set of young starlings visit our feeder and harangue their mother. This morning one of them seems to have learnt to take seeds from the feeder themselves! Fast learning. I’ve been inspired by visiting the 1920’s theatre family D’Oyly Carte’s Arts and Crafts house at Coleton Fishacre near Dartmouth. Such beautiful gardens but there were photographs of what the site looked like when it was being built in 1925-27, an empty field. So they would never have seen what we can see today. 😌
Sounds like a wonderful place to visit Lynne! And really interesting to think about it from that perspective. I had the opposite experience this week - returning to the ruins of “The Temple of Decision” on the Falkland Estate, which was designed in 1849 as a summerhouse, and imagining how it would have been in its former splendour. Also inspiring though!
And I know just what you mean about the starlings. We call them The Lads. ☺️ Boisterous but gorgeous bright things.
Ooh the lads, I like that. And that place sounds very interesting too, as you say from the other end of the perspective. Building and diminishing, I guess everything sits on that spectrum 🧐
Love love love your account of your bird station Christina! We’ve been watching a noisy set of young starlings visit our feeder and harangue their mother. This morning one of them seems to have learnt to take seeds from the feeder themselves! Fast learning. I’ve been inspired by visiting the 1920’s theatre family D’Oyly Carte’s Arts and Crafts house at Coleton Fishacre near Dartmouth. Such beautiful gardens but there were photographs of what the site looked like when it was being built in 1925-27, an empty field. So they would never have seen what we can see today. 😌
Sounds like a wonderful place to visit Lynne! And really interesting to think about it from that perspective. I had the opposite experience this week - returning to the ruins of “The Temple of Decision” on the Falkland Estate, which was designed in 1849 as a summerhouse, and imagining how it would have been in its former splendour. Also inspiring though!
And I know just what you mean about the starlings. We call them The Lads. ☺️ Boisterous but gorgeous bright things.
Ooh the lads, I like that. And that place sounds very interesting too, as you say from the other end of the perspective. Building and diminishing, I guess everything sits on that spectrum 🧐
Yes. Growth, decay and everything in between.