Our eldest came round for a belated father's day visit, arriving early to avoid heatwave temperatures and congestion on the road. So we had breakfast together on the front terrace. The blackbird above was giving a beautiful concert, where he recognised the bird from the song. Which it turns out he learned from a good birdsong identifying app - Merlin Bird ID, free from Cornell - which I promptly installed on my phone as well. I recommended PlantNet in return which I use to identify plants.
Other than birds we spotted a squirrel running through the front lawn, and heard a couple of distant thundery rumbles which I thought to be cannon at Waterloo for this weekend's reenactment (more on that tomorrow), where an early start would make sense in this extreme heat.
blackbird - merle - merel
squirrel - écureuil - eekhoorn
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