R Favorite Aminals
"Pssst!!! Pooh! AND the Bridge"... "You forget to say about the Pooh-Sticks Bridge...and what about the Bluebell Steam Railway? You never said about that either".
'Yes Pooh, YOU are', says Tigger, 'So don't give us any of this 'WE' stuff, because I've got plenty of bouncing to be done and Eeyore's got loads of thistles to eat. You are in charge of this page remember? 'And', says Eeyore, 'by the way Pooh, it's animals, NOT aMinals'.
'Yes of course it's animals. I know cos I've got a very soft spot for aminals right in the middlingest part of me AND
"Yea, okay okay.. shush up will you Tigger and Eeyore. I've got a portant question to arsk 1st... so everyone's got to listen. Shush up okay? Ready? I wroted it down specially to ask you...
HERE IT IS! Ahem...
'Are we starting with our pets, Tigger?' says Pooh. 'Well Eeyore! Are we or aren't we?'
I remember I'm in charge too, so stop fussing me Eeyore, and you too Tigger. Okay? And now "Shooo!", both of you'
Here's a nice pic of Erin's love birds called Bert (on the left) and Peaches.
... she belongs to Jul's Mum.
and his sheep isn't it? This is on a road
up in the English Lake District... Cumbria...
where Jul's Great-Uncle lives.
But when you look at them from underneath there's loads of white.
What a great mix of different shades of red.
And just look at the brilliant forked tail!
When Kites fly, their wings seem to sweep back.
So they look very different from Buzzards
whose wings seem to point more forward.
And look at the enormous size of their wings
Kites have very small bodies compared to Buzzards.
'Hmmm' says Pooh to himself, 'I always thought Buzzards were
very big Bees, cos of the way they Buzzerd'.
Also ....
Buzzards have to flap their wings a lot in flight
whereas the Kites glide gracefully on the thermals
['No Pooh, you stupid Bear, I do NOT mean thermal underwear', says Tigger. 'Now just be quiet and listen to what I say'.
'Oh all right then', says Pooh, 'but don't always take so long about it and try using shorter words for a change.']
Back in the time when William Shakespeare was
writing his plays there were so many Red Kites
scavenging among the trash in the City of London
that they were a really common sight.
But over the last 60 years they nearly became extinct.
So it's good news that the conservation efforts have
increased their numbers from about 10 to up around 120 pairs.
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Pooh interrupted Tigger just then and asked "Eeyore?
Do you like pears as well as thistles?"
"Not much" answered Eeyore, "but I like pairs OF thistles,
especially if nobody has sat on them the way you do Pooh."
Kites are mostly in Wales, but there are now quite a few pairs
on an estate in the Chiltern Hills near Jul's home.
..... 'Well so it is', says Tigger, 'But HIS Kite is blue and green and it only ever flies if there's a strong wind blowing. Jul's Red Kites can fly all on their own even when there isn't any wind.'
Pooh mumbled "A fly can't bird but a bird can fly"
"What's that you're saying Pooh", asked Eeyore.
"Nothing much really" said Pooh,
"only thinking to myself about another Poem I'm composting.
I've called it 'Cottleston Pie'. I'll tell it to you one day."
And this is a Coot with its chicks.... you can always tell Coots from Moorhens because Coots have got white bills instead of red ones
Do you know the difference between a Stoat and a Weasel?
'Dunno' says Pooh, 'I give up. What IS the difference?'
'They're Weasely told', says Tigger,'cos they're Stoatally different'.
'Humpff! How SILLY', says Pooh, turning his back on Tigger'.
playing among the primroses in front of the
'Jack-in-the-Pulpit'.
to give them their full name) with a little
(Jenny) Wren. These 2 species of bird are
the 2 best known birds which build nests
with a hole in the side.
Here is a photo of a Skylark hovering during its Song-flight
Typically the Common Skylark (max length 7 inches) will ascend in what has been called its Song-flight (often at dawn), climbing higher and higher till it is a mere speck in the sky quite difficult to detect at anything between 50 and 150 metres from the ground. It may stay pouring out its song for anything between 3 and 15 minutes in what a bird guide describes as "an incessant outpour of rolling, chirruping, and whistling notes at fast pace". At the end of the song-flight the Skylark descends whilst still singing, but finally falls silently to the ground with folded wings. No description of this bird's song can do it justice. To hear a Skylark singing is a thoroughly uplifting experience. It is a true slice of nature's beauty at its very best..... something everyone should have the delight of experiencing at least once in their lifetime. The trailing edge of a Skylark's wings (showing as a white band in the photo below) are specially designed so that the feathers interlock and so make possible the long periods of hovering at one position in the sky.
The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams tried to capture the song in music when he wrote "The Lark Ascending", and for those of you interested in this I will add some notes and the poem about the Skylark which he attached to the flyleaf of the score..........
In The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams found inspiration not only in English folk themes but in a poem by the English poet George Meredith (1828-1909). The composer included this portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf of the published work:
He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
‘Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.
'How do you spell 'Jam'?.... 'I can taste Jam very well', says Pooh,
'but I'm not sure how to spell it.' Well you spell it "Eye" "Tea" ..."IT"..... Ha Ha!!
the home of many of the remaining colonies of
Red Squirrels in Britain. This is a pic of a famous
painting which Tigger used as background for one of our pages.
Know who the painter was? Look at the famous initials above
and between the 2 sqirrels.... Did you get it?
Yes I bet you did.... it was Albrecht Durer.
'Please will you come and play Pooh Sticks with us Tigger', says Pooh.
'Oh Bother and double bother', says Pooh, 'I wanted to play them with YOU Tigger. And anyway I think you will be one very exhausted Pussy if you keep repeating those exercizes so many times so you might not be able to come with us'
'Never mind', said Tigger, 'Ha ha Pooh.... at least if I keep doing my KM exercizes I'll get to be as strong as you'. Pooh grinned a sort of knowing grin and said "Yes Tigger I expect you definitely will be, and that will be SO good" ..... All the others (except Eeyore) THOUGHT that K must be something to do with Kanga, but Pooh knew better (for once!) and so did Eeyore, but nobody else really had a clue what they were talking about! I don't suppose you know either! It is their own little secret you see.
"and do you see that bit of green on the map? That is the very edge of what these days is called "500 Acre Wood". They think I'm kidding, don't they Pooh?"
"Oh no, Tigger's not kidding", says Pooh, "that's the real honest injun truth, cross my heart and hope to die".
"There's no need to be silly about it Pooh", says Tigger.
Tiggers like everything except Honey, Haycorns, Thistles ... and Silliness". "And I ha-ha-ha-ha-tissue" sneezed Eeyore as she got a piece of thistledown right in the most ticklingest part of her nose.
AND quite close-by is the wonderful Bluebell Railway... it's a STEAM RAILWAY which runs a regular schedule... SO
See the following LINK - - - -"Tour of the BLUEBELL (STEAM) RAILWAY"
Also see the following LINKS - - - -
"ENJOY BRITAIN - and Scotland On-Line with its galleries of free Greeting Pics, and also the quarterly magazine "This England".
Click on the card below for your free musical greeting "Card of the Day" from "CARDS BY MOUSE"
March 9th 2007
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