![]() ![]() While many think of starlings as rather drab brown or black birds, their colours are actually among the most spectacular of our local birds - once you see them in the right light. “ Starlings in Winter” by Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, To think again of dangerous and noble things. This wheel of many parts, that can rise and spinĪh, world, what lessons you prepare for us, With no articulated instruction, no pause, ![]() So let’s have a look at the joy to be found in these starry, fizzy birds.Īs always, poet Mary Oliver says it perfectly … It is time to turn from our textbooks and listen to the birds themselves.” “But the earth and its beings are extravagantly wild, full of unexpected wonders. ![]()
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