Monday, April 16, 2012
Dorney
Late afternoon I meant to walk down to the weir and out onto the common; but a cuckoo materialising on West Marsh kept me near the bridges. The bird was reported this morning.
Like the cuckoo on Wishmore, it kept diving into the undergrowth as though pouncing on something. Beetles, perhaps, as they are supposed to eat those as well as caterpillars. This one didn't "cuckoo" while I was there. Other things noticed: A snipe took off from East Marsh calling and plummeted into reeds on the south bank further downstream. A swallow flew over going north. And while I was on the boardwalk there was another sudden, strong, but seemingly localised gust of wind, sending bits of reed and straw spinning perversely westwards up the river although the wind gust itself seemed to move north-east towards the information boards. Another dust devil perhaps.
// posted by Christine @ 10:35 AM 
