Tag Archives: Virginia Bluebird Society
There’ll Be Bluebirds Over
The American composer of “There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover” either had the excuse of poetic license or didn’t know that bluebirds are absent from the British Isles. But the song became one of one of Dame … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, garden, Nature
Tagged Bird eggs, Bluebird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, coronavirus, nestbox, Vera Lynn, Virginia Bluebird Society
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Virginia Nature Journal for April
Smells arouse old memories, good and bad. The coconut bouquet of prickly gorse bushes evokes memories of ranks of jasmine blossom on the chalky downs of the Isle of Wight where I was born and Algy Swinburne grew up. Oh, … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Birding, bluebirds, nest-boxes, Virginia Bluebird Society
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 