γThe birds which I met
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When I have a lot of bread for breakfast, I save some for later. So I always have stale bread in my daypack. This is for the birds I meet here and there.
I have passed the foot of Coniston Water several times, and every time I pass by, I am greeted by ducks.
When the ducks and coots know that they will be fed, they rush to gather, running on the surface of the water.
The ducks welcome me by calling out to each other, "Gwe gwe." I respond with "Gwe weg," and share my breakfast with them.
Compared to the birds, the sheep on the farm are not very friendly. Even when I call out to them to give them bread, they don't respond.
I met some spot-billed ducks at the northern end of Coniston Water. Black-headed gulls with their white summer plumage also come looking for food.
They respond when I call out to them to let them know it's time for dinner.
This would be because COOT CLUB played an active part for protection in River Bure of the Norfolk district, or very many coots gathered to me at Ferry inn. Though there was a coot in such a group, I met you for the first time.
When I sat a bench seat of Hawkshead YH, a robin came over near immediately. And the bird stopped at the neighboring bench. I take out a camera not to threaten him. Robin is not afraid of a person, but the big movement is not possible. I took a photograph quietly.
In morning of Ambleside YH in the ridge of the Widermere water, several hundred flocks of jackdaws gathered on the roof of YH and were absent. The crows crossed the Widermere water little by little before long. Will them go to the other side of the lake for breakfast?
A group of geese which I met at farm of Walton_on_the_Naze. They are thought to be Canada goose.
There was a white bird in this. It may be Morten with Nils.
1998.8 Stratford upon Avon
