tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post4450853673977154967..comments2024-03-27T13:34:10.184+00:00Comments on NORTH DOWNS & BEYOND: Dream timeSteve Galehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-62840744592973787202012-02-04T12:10:55.893+00:002012-02-04T12:10:55.893+00:00Graeme - my birding dreams are similar to yours in...Graeme - my birding dreams are similar to yours in that failure is just around the corner (no optics, unidentifiable species). We must have need of a psychiatrist...<br /><br />Jerry - tell me more about these exotic birds...<br /><br />David - I've yet to have a Canons related dream although I love the idea of a hidden water body that bestows upon us wildfowl. maybe it's a premonition that you are having!Steve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-14525364840806187552012-02-03T20:35:42.056+00:002012-02-03T20:35:42.056+00:00My dreams remind me how sadly/profoundly deep my a...My dreams remind me how sadly/profoundly deep my attachment to birding is psychologically - 80% of my dreams are bird-related! I still remember a very short dream from last night that I was at Beddington and there there three Ravens sitting on posts on the main lake, and I was watching them with three fictional but well regarded birders. Two were juveniles but in this dream juveniles were identified by having a shaggy brown mane of feathers around their neck.<br /><br />Anyway, on the topic of recurring natural history dreams, in the last couple of years mine is that I happen to stumble upon a body of water at Canons that I didn't know existed or had just been constructed. Without fail, as in your dreams, the place does not resemble Canons but it is Canons. The water body is always relatively small and lacks much potential but there's without fail something unexpected on there. Last time it was four drake Pintails and another time it was a flock of Dunlins and a couple of Great Crested Grebes.<br /><br />DavidDavid Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03936919745022906765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-33000496506625409752012-02-02T22:30:53.557+00:002012-02-02T22:30:53.557+00:00Several times I've dreamt of birding from my b...Several times I've dreamt of birding from my bedroom window (because its a dream of course, it's 'my bedroom' from 40 years ago!) watching White Storks, Yellow-bellied Sap Suckers, Crag Martins, Black-and-white Warblers... and nobody to tell - ahhhh!!! Also had a few other dreams about exotic birds - but that's another story!Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08701059256337022749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-62080952708979181382012-02-01T19:45:59.046+00:002012-02-01T19:45:59.046+00:00Since childhood I have dreamt that I am in a forwi...Since childhood I have dreamt that I am in a forwign country, surrounded by a plethora of exotic birds. My optics are at hand but alas it is the field guide that I am missing. The frustration of seeing so many birds and not knowing what they are usually wakes me up. Anxiety at some level in both cases I would say, perhaps regarding failure? I had my first beetle dream last year about Lacon quercus.Graeme Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07105938845237816643noreply@blogger.com