tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post5104306195182918203..comments2024-02-09T06:24:16.626+00:00Comments on upside down in cloud: winter flocks in Pewsey ValeDru Marlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-2726332457073218482020-12-16T11:16:57.899+00:002020-12-16T11:16:57.899+00:00We have lots of running water here! And this is gr...We have lots of running water here! And this is growing in a clear-flowing stream.<br />If you pick it and stand it in s jug it roots almost immediately! So we are thinking of rooting some in my friend's woods in her stream.<br />mimsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719051673173176728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-8719129441135742852020-12-16T10:49:15.354+00:002020-12-16T10:49:15.354+00:00there's watercress growing at places along the...there's watercress growing at places along the canal, but I certainly wouldn't eat any from that source! I used to visit quite often a place near Winchester where there was so much watercress that the local railway was called the Watercress Line...Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-73813153538028179952020-12-12T13:27:01.484+00:002020-12-12T13:27:01.484+00:00I love gleaning...at the moment it is wood offcuts...I love gleaning...at the moment it is wood offcuts from a skipbagful left at the top of the hill. And wild watercress I have discovered growing in a stream on the lane's edgemimsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719051673173176728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-76601562668062992102020-12-10T05:29:13.532+00:002020-12-10T05:29:13.532+00:00Gleaning works too! But starlings are very fossick...Gleaning works too! But starlings are very fossicky, like cockney hordes raucously picking hops (allegedly. They were before my time! It was hippies when I did it)Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-75974661929739297202020-12-09T16:06:40.011+00:002020-12-09T16:06:40.011+00:00I have always been attracted by this time of year ...I have always been attracted by this time of year (almost finished here, looking at the snow everywhere) that your photos have captured perfectly. Fossicking is a new word for me, so thank you. I would have said those birds are gleaning. Deannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08887649330596022559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-38811622664034645922020-12-08T22:26:03.054+00:002020-12-08T22:26:03.054+00:00There was a mustelid connection that Peter mention...There was a mustelid connection that Peter mentioned. I’ll have to ask him! Dru Marlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03697874363783821382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448752251053894818.post-90245626250495942682020-12-08T10:17:53.535+00:002020-12-08T10:17:53.535+00:00The landscape looks strange and sometimes sad when...The landscape looks strange and sometimes sad when it is all grey.<br /><br />How on earth did a black lab get the name of Weasel?!!gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.com