Cooking With Richard

Video of ducklings

An appearance by a chaffinch. We have them living in the high trees around the house but they very very rarely come down to ground level. Well we had a chaffinch couple feeding on the ground today. I got these photographs with my 300mm lens from the upstairs window:

A greattit feeding:

I was watching the bluetits today. They are proud and happy parents, but I saw the mother (below) who had previously been feeding her chick sitting on top of the tree, chirping desperately. It may be that she was looking for her baby …

Reminds me.

… of this.

If ever I feel down, I look at this gorgeous photo by Wikipedian Luc Viatour. And I’m reminded that we have bluetits aplenty in our garden. Just a few days ago I spotted six together, eating the nuts and fat that N-sama has put out. Bluetits are definitely my favourite avian (or should that be theropod?)

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The swans are cold and hungry today. They rush up to you and expect feeding.

N-sama took these photos of the local wildlife.

We think this one is a female sparrow. Very coy, she was hiding for most of the time in the thick undergrowth, but popped out to collect some seeds from the ground:

Bluetits and (second below) greattits are regular visitors in the CookingWithRichard garden. The greattits tend to bully their smaller relatives:

Hanggliders:

See, where we’re living now is better than J&M’s flat in Aoyama!

They don’t have ducks[1]

or dinosaurs.

Update: [1] The one on the left is actually a Canada goose.

Airbus A380 … lorks a lordy, it really is huge:

MiG 29 - those Russian pilots are bonkers:

Red Arrows, before and after:

日本語 translation

There’s quite a fun TV programme on at the moment, The Urban Chef about chef Oliver Rowe and his quest to set up a restaurant in Kings Cross which serves only London food.
Scarily today he managed to source London Pigeon. Yummy.
But anyhow one of the sources that caught my eye was this Ostrich farm in Chesham which I’m sure I’ll be visiting at some point.
If only to make this dish …