Birdwatching
I have been learning something about orni- thology lately from my bedroom window. The first in the morning to go for the food we put out are the tits, but they are invariably driven away by four or five wood-pigeons which eat up everything in sight within a few minutes. Half a dozen redwings hang about the garden miser- ably, living off the remaining shrivelled firethorn berries: these are winter visitors which have been badly cheated this year, but they are faring better in London than they would in the coun- tryside where they normally spend the season. Among the usual birds of town and suburb and parkland I've seen in the branches at the back of my house a brambling, .a fieldfare, a siskin and a small flock of hedge sparrows. To judge from these incursions, the open country round London must be almost deserted by this time.
STARBUCK
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