5.15am - really!!!

The second part of my annual birdwatch Ireland jaunt and it involves getting up horrendously early ie 4.45am!!! I think I'm justified in using that amount of exclamation marks in this instance. A quick gulp of tea, fed the cats and off I went. At least it was getting light and the sky was pretty and pink and calm. Just nearing Durrus I realised I had no petrol and no money so had to zoom home and then re-start. I arrived at Derreenataggart at around 6.15. Tons of twittering going on in the hedgerows and masses of tiny beige birdeens making a racket but I'm not sure what they were - warblers of some kind. You can see what an expert twitcher I am. The most popular species today interestingly were bullfinches. Not a soul did I meet just some cows lined up for milking.
Petrol obtained in Ballydehob and too early to get the sunday papers,so I bought two still warm croissants and took them down to a beach where I had an al fresco breakfast and then, dear readers, I swam!! It was arctic when I first got in but rather lovely eventually. All this before 9 o clock!

Very interesting results from my roofs/rooves survey yesterday and I'm even more shocked. 13 of you were firmly for roofs, 4 thought both would be okay, and 4 went for rooves. I was convinced it was rooves - never have I said roofs! I agree with Arachne and a couple of others that rooves may be archaic (!) but it still sounds and looks much better. However, I have succumbed and roofs will now appear in the book. It seems hoofs is also acceptable and causes much heated discussion on the internet. Knives remains intact.