By 4tilden at de.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsA crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. Frederick The Great
By Atoma (Own creation) [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia CommonsA rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
Dylan Thomas
We did the Barn owls the other day not expecting much because of the rain and were surprised to find some success. One had fledged young and was sitting on a new clutch! We found 2 new pairs, 2 newly hatched but 1 pair poisoned with the female in the box dead with 5 eggs and her mate dead in the field. As the BBC said the other day Rats are moving out of flooded areas and sadly all people think of is poison to deal with them!! We need a national campaign to reduce poison used in towns, cities and the countryside with an increase of nest boxes in urban areas so Kestrels and owls can expand.
John – very interesting, thank you.
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Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
Dylan Thomas
We did the Barn owls the other day not expecting much because of the rain and were surprised to find some success. One had fledged young and was sitting on a new clutch! We found 2 new pairs, 2 newly hatched but 1 pair poisoned with the female in the box dead with 5 eggs and her mate dead in the field. As the BBC said the other day Rats are moving out of flooded areas and sadly all people think of is poison to deal with them!! We need a national campaign to reduce poison used in towns, cities and the countryside with an increase of nest boxes in urban areas so Kestrels and owls can expand.
John – very interesting, thank you.