An enormous Christmas tree is going up in the lounge as we go out - slotting together in dark green bottlebrush pieces, of course, but ceiling high, a good twelve feet. More or less finished when we get back and pretty festive, if a little premature. Large red baubles and twinkling gold fairy lights.
J and I debate whether the two-toned birds outside are crows or magpies. He says their tails are too short for magpies, while I maintain that the colour is wrong for crows, though I can see that they're actually black and light grey rather than black and white, like magpies. He's right, of course: they're hooded crows, inhabiting the northwest of England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as central and eastern Europe - and Cyprus.
J and I debate whether the two-toned birds outside are crows or magpies. He says their tails are too short for magpies, while I maintain that the colour is wrong for crows, though I can see that they're actually black and light grey rather than black and white, like magpies. He's right, of course: they're hooded crows, inhabiting the northwest of England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as central and eastern Europe - and Cyprus.
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