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Steve T,

With regard to your earlier post, are there pike in the big lake on PR?


I'm genuinely interested.


I've seen a fair few rats, both water rats and the normal kind, but was not aware of pike. How thrilling if there was a huge, ancient pike (not to mention wild cats) that lived on the Rye.

Little to tell. A little quirk of mine, I like to look at it most days and see how accurate it is. There is a squiggly graph at the bottom which tells you how much time to add or subtract depending on the month.


Using the graph, it was pretty accurate until the clocks went forward. Now it's way out, man.

I seem to have two teeny tiny birds living in a teeny tiny hole in the brickwork next to a large window sill.


They flew so fast in and out that I could see nothing except that they were tiny and perhaps brown with a white flash on the front. Will have to investigate.

One of the things about wrens is that they have very thin beaks, which are quite long in relation to their tiny bodies, or always look that way to me.


Also "rounder" bodies than pied wagtails I think.


And I think they are completely brown, not with a white flash anywhere.


But I don't have the energy to look up my bird book :)


I love wrens, had one who used to be about my (very small) garden a lot a few years back.

To me the distinctive things about wrens is that they are remarkably tiny in comparison with other small birds, and their bodies are very deep, if that's the right way of putting it - very round bodies, as Sue said.


Pied wagtails are black and white and not so small, so perhaps not?


Anyway, here are some pics


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