Wednesday 18 March 2009

Twitching with greyhounds

Well spring is well and truly upon us... for the moment. The birds are really active and as there are no leaves on the trees yet, this offers a ton of bird-watching opportunities.

Certain greyhounds are the best possible bird-spotting companions imaginable. Take Becky for instance. Not a lot gets past her. As soon as she sees movement in the trees she homes in on it, and it means you get to spot some really interesting little birds.

The other day it was a woodpecker - we often hear them around the kennels - but they are tiny little birds, so quite difficult to spot.

Not for Becky - although she gets bored as soon as she realises it's not a squirrel! And then really bored when I spend five minutes watching the bird and telling her all about it.

"C'mon, there's squirrels out there," she says.

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