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The Oxhill News November 2003 |
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Nature Notes November is the ninth month of the Roman Calendar and in Gaelic is An t-Samhuinn, the month of the Samhain festival. I reported last month the sighting in the village of a blackbird-sized honey-coloured bird with a bright red beak. Thank you Jenny Bowes for reminding me that female bird is often drab compared with the male, and she believes, and I agree, that this bird was a female Golden Oriole. A rare summer visitor, the more obvious male is a striking bright yellow with black wings and a red beak, but the female is honey green with a grey underside, still with the red beak. With our hotter longer summers I
believe we will begin to see far more “exotics” that would normally
migrate to southern and central October/November sees the arrival of
the Fieldfare, a winter visitor to 23rd November, the last Sunday before Advent, was known as stir-up Sunday when the mixture for Christmas puddings was started to allow them plenty of time to mature. They should always be stirred clockwise with a wooden spoon, and all present should take a turn in order – mother, father, children and babies by seniority and lastly visitors. On 24th November the sun enters the House of Sagittarius. For people born under this sign - “Both man and woman shall be inconstant in deeds; but of good conscience, merciful and better to others than themselves” Kalendar of Shepheardes 1604. Grenville Moore |
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