Avocet

Avocets give me the same feeling I got when I first saw Greenfinches in the back yard of my terraced childhood home in Oldham. The idea that I had birds which were green in my garden was almost too much for me to bear. Green! It was as if I had been transported to Gerard Durrell’s Corfu or Doctor Doolittle’s Africa. They were so exotic, I could hardly bear it.

Seeing Avocets is my adult equivalent.

Just look at that beak!