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12/05/2008, 10:01 mooky Joined on 12/12/2005 79 Posts 252 absolute heaven Money can't buy it. It's better than any antidepressant tablet. It is mysterious, beautiful, just about everything wonderful. I may not have good health, or much money but I am so enriched by it. What is it? It's a nightingale outside my bedroom window every night, so so beautiful;    Report

12/05/2008, 11:18 Benjamin Joined on 21/08/2005 Vendée South Posts 1,581 Re: absolute heaven Keeping you awake mooky? Chuck something at it. That'll soon get rid of the blighter.  Benjamin Snips, snails and puppy dog tails    Report

12/05/2008, 11:33 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,129 Re: absolute heaven Lucky mooky.  I've still to hear one but OH heard one recently.    Report

13/05/2008, 10:37 trees 2 Joined on 28/04/2008 Posts 90 Re: absolute heaven  sweet 17 wrote: Lucky mooky.  I've still to hear one but OH heard one recently. Nightingales? Pah, common as muck. My mate who lives in Stainforth near Donny has one that sings in his garden.    Report

13/05/2008, 15:08 Grumpy Joined on 23/08/2004 23 Posts 101 Re: absolute heaven Excellent! We, too, have them singing at night. The others we have around us are Hoopoes and Golden Orioles and the Barn Owl at night brings a smile to my face every time we hear it. A week ago we took a couple of days off in the Correze and saw a rather bizarre sight - rather than a flock of seagulls following the tractor ploughing the field there was about 12 or 15 Kites! What with the fantastic sight of migrating cranes twice a year, we certainly have some fascinating birdlife here in the Limousin. Enjoy your Nightingale, Mooky! Steve There are 10 kinds of people, those who can count in binary and those who can't!    Report

13/05/2008, 19:43 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 786 Re: absolute heaven When taking the Grandchildren to The Forest of Villecartier, we saw a buzzard trying to pick up a red squirrel. I jumped out of the car and the Buzzard dropped the squirrel which managed to survive the experience and hide in some ivy. The first time I've seen a red squirrel even though I lived a few miles from Brownsea Island in Dorset. The grandchildren were totally unfazed by the event. Regards.    Report

13/05/2008, 20:43 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,129 Re: absolute heaven  Grumpy wrote: Excellent! We, too, have them singing at night. The others we have around us are Hoopoes and Golden Orioles and the Barn Owl at night brings a smile to my face every time we hear it. A week ago we took a couple of days off in the Correze and saw a rather bizarre sight - rather than a flock of seagulls following the tractor ploughing the field there was about 12 or 15 Kites! What with the fantastic sight of migrating cranes twice a year, we certainly have some fascinating birdlife here in the Limousin. Enjoy your Nightingale, Mooky! Steve We have Golden Oriels, Hoopoes, Owls and recently a pair of some sort of birds of prey.  These latter are big and act and behave like birds of prey but I don't know enough to tell what sort they are.  They are so elegant and assured as they swoop and circle and I swear they know I am watching them through my binocs because they kind of dive towards me and wheel about, showing their undersides and then their topsides.  Amazing sight and me, knowing next to nothing about birds, but I am totally captivated.    Report

13/05/2008, 21:08 Hoddy Joined on 23/08/2004 .....Forum Moderator..... NW Leics/SE Dordogne Posts 2,086 Re: absolute heaven I know how you feel Mooky. We have two new foals in the field next to us and they are heartbreakingly beautiful; all legs and eyes. I could watch them all day and very nearly do.   Hoddy    Report

13/05/2008, 21:14 PeterG Joined on 15/11/2005 Lancs/Yorks border - 79 Posts 289 Re: absolute heaven All my wife has is me snoring.............which sends her into the spare bedroom. Raptures...........NOT A wasted day is one where you have not laughed.    Report

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