Humming Bird in the UK? – Photos

Now not being an expert on ornithology I wasn’t definately sure what I was looking at this morning when my girlfriend woke me up to enquire what kind of an animal was happily buzzing round our carnations.

However, I was pretty sure this was a humming bird (although other suggestions on a postcard please), I was also pretty sure they don’t tend to visit Stoke Newington, North London too often.

Anyway, make your own mind up:

Humming bird
Humming bird
Humming bird

Humming bird
Humming bird
Humming bird

Droughtragious!

Drought alert! For those of you not in the UK you may be forgiven for not knowing that we are apparently in a drought.

Drought, defined by google as:

A prolonged period of below-average precipitation.

The very concerned people at Thames Water have even taken to sending letters urging us to ‘beat the drought’ (Thames Water, profits of £385.5m in 2005, leaking 915 million litres a day).

Drought
Now I am certainly not an expert on precipitation, but it has been fucking tipping it down here over the last few weeks. I am sure its the wrong sort of rain or something, but damn its wet. Maybe my concept of a ‘drought’ is just wrong?

Drought

Drought

Drought

Drought

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