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Tom Pendergast's avatar

I love your little bird sketches. They’d make a cool fridge magnet.

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Bryn Robinson's avatar

Thanks, Tom. I never thought of that but like the idea 😃

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tolu's avatar

i always look forward to seeing your photos ^_^ so gorgeous!

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Bryn Robinson's avatar

🥺 Thank you, Tolu!

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Tinabeth Chapman's avatar

Great story. I like the “noise of nature” the best in the whole wide world.

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Bryn Robinson's avatar

Thanks, Tinabeth! It’s really quite something to hear how much we miss from all our urban noise.

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Such lovely words, bird art and photographs, Bryn! Absolutely beautiful.

Your Common Gallinule is called a moorhen around here. They're lovely, with their insistent calls and their constantly flicking-up tails. They're on most ponds and lakes around here - quite shy, though. Their babies are adorable - tiny balls of black fluff with funny little faces!

A lovely post. I'm ever so behind on my reading, but having a super time catching up! 😊

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Bryn Robinson's avatar

I like the name “moorhen” much better than the name we have here. This fella was quite shy, and sadly no babies around when we visited - because little black puffballs sound so adorable!

(Appreciate you checking out the posts - I have a similar backlog but will get sorted now that I’m back from your neck of the woods 😅)

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

I’d got behind, and then I was saving them up for a bulk-reading treat, which I absolutely loved!

Hope you had a terrific time on our little island - I reckon up there in Scotland you were about 400-500 miles away from my bottom-right-hand corner of England!

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