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Monday, December 18, 2006

Making a difference

At the risk of sounding like a vicar, I heard this story the other day and loved it:

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the water's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"

posted by Matt Bell at 5:47 pm 0 comments

Making a difference

At the risk of sounding like a vicar, I heard this story the other day, and really liked it:

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the water's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"

posted by Matt Bell at 5:44 pm 0 comments

NEW !!! Visitor


Poor record shot of No. 26 on the Garden List - Song Thrush. Picture taken quickly from kitchen window before this briefest visitor departed.

posted by Andrew Huyton at 1:51 pm 0 comments

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Garden List

The garden list is now as follows:-

Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
House Sparrow
Collard dove (upto 20)
Blue tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Reed Bunting
Willow Warbler
Pheasant
Dunnock
Robin
Wren
Blackbird
Redwing
Swallow
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Fieldfare (fly over)
Woodpigeon (fly over)

Total of 25 Bird spieces

In addition

Brown Rat
Rabbit
Mouse sp.
Red Admiral Butterfly
Comma Butterfly
Painted Lady Butterfly
Small White Butterfly
Large Skipper Butterfly
Common Toad
Common Frog
Palmate Newt
Roe Deer (adjacent fields)

posted by Andrew Huyton at 6:49 pm 0 comments

Still behind but will get there


In the mean time thought I'd post this photo taken today during the heavy rain, I guess that this Rabbit had been washed out of it's burrow with all the heavy rain.

Don't forget to get a better look at the picture simply double click on the image.

posted by Andrew Huyton at 6:44 pm 0 comments