The Woodland Garden (Sunday 27th March 2022)

The birds are just beginning to return to the garden and onto the feeders. Of the finches I have seen one greenfinch and over the last few days a couple of goldfinches have been back. I caught a shot of one on the feeders on Saturday but as it was taken in the kitchen through both a glassed door and the porch window it was a very poor image (in Extras), not worth blipping.

This blip was taken from the porch after a goldfinch had flown from the feeders to the cotinus above it, with the camera pressed against the porch double-glazing.

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Tuesday 29.3.2022 (1317 hr)

Blip #3612 (#3362 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #050/265 + #021/100 Extras
Day #4387 (1028 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2756 (#2596 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Birdfeeder series
Birds series
Taken Through Glass series

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Woodland Garden (March 2022) (Flickr album)(So far)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Jakob Dylan and Cat Power - You Showed Me (2018)
This comes from the soundtrack of the excellent documentary Echo In The Canyon, which celebrated "the popular music that came out of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon neighborhood in the mid-60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas cemented the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to L.A. to emulate the Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music" (Wikipedia). The film was led by Jakob Dylan (son of Bob) and had some lovely performances including this old Byrds song with an additional vocal by Cat Power, written by Jim McGuinn and Gene Clark, that was played on Sunday's Cerys Matthews show. The Byrds recorded it 1964, before they were signed to Columbia, and the song was unknown and indeed unreleased before the Turtles had a hit with it in 1968. There have since been cover versions including those by the Lightning Seeds and Salt-n-Pepa.


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Calne Town Gardens (Hellebores)