An Old Stinker

Some birds have different or dialect names. Where I come from, Hartlepool, these beautiful birds are known as stinkers; civilised folk call them starlings of course. They used to be much commoner than they are nowadays with flocks in winter of thousands but now you are lucky to see a hundred or so wheeling around.

Common Frog

Young Crow

Margot took these a few years ago in Spring Bank cemetery..

Grey Squirrel

Chaffinch

Another Blackbird

As the theme for this month was Nature I think I'll take a little break, put the blog on autopilot and post a few bits of nature for the next few days.


Margot took this.

Blackbird

Not really in the mood for this blogging game so here's a blackbird to be going on with.