Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Spring has arrived perhaps 18-03-2015


Spring arrived in Southern England last week (although gone again this week!) and we had several lovely days. My bird watching companion, Tony, got in touch and I had a lovely morning out, blindsimming and bird listening. If you haven't read about these outings of mine then go to our web-site – meblindfolded.wix.com/blindsimming-lady -page 11. (together with previous blogs here). I have an old, but robust, large-keyed mobile phone which I use only for blindsimming purposes and only Chris and Tony have the number. Tony has to ring me to talk about arranging outings, knowing that it is no good sending text messages as he believes me to be completely blind – quite flattering for me after several years now with him on occasional bird 'watching' outings. Meeting him off the bus last week then, he gave me (just to hold) a large heavy book which he said was the Sussex Bird Survey Atlas, published a year ago, listing all the bird species, each with its own map and descriptions as surveyed in Sussex a few years ago by volunteers such as him and, to his pride, listing his name in an Appendix at the back together with mine!!. (So he said – I couldn't see it for myself, of course.) He said he had submitted my name together with his as I had helped so much at the time identifying bird calls and songs and there it was (he said) on page 603. I have looked in our local library since but they didn't have a copy – too specialist, they said!

I managed all the bus and walking completely blind perfectly okay, even though out of practice since my last trip out last Autumn. I'm going to try to expand the trip a bit, it's almost getting to the boring stage now.

More next time then,

Jane.

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