Pigeons and doves

I went out for a walk on Monday morning and as I parked the car at 0710 a large flock of pigeons flew past. Just Woodpigeons, nothing very special, but hundreds of them so quite interesting. And then another flew past, and another and I started counting.  In 15 minutes c5000 birds flew past; and…

Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

My thanks to Ralph for this cartoon – his idea, not mine. Monday is the day when I send in the manuscript of ‘A message from Martha‘  to Bloombury and everything is on track.  I hope they like it. I’ve been liaising with the artist who is producing the cover – looking good to me…

Sunday in Liverpool

Sunday was, do you remember, the 99th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon in the world, in Cincinnati Zoo, at around 1230 local time? At 1230 local time in the Central Library in Liverpool, I was looking at one of only about 120 remaining complete volumes of John James Audubon’s Birds…