A crow mobbing a buzzard, yesterday at the top of Cheddar Gorge. Can it be a mob if it's singlehanded? Can it be singlehanded if it has wings? Then the buzzard got above the crow and attacked it! It dodged, but then a few more buzzards and several more crows appeared from somewhere and they were all wheeling around in the sky. Looking at their wings, it occurred to me that perhaps the crows were actually ravens, but I don't know if they're found in the Gorge? It was so fascinating I stopped and watched - time limits be blowed!
Later I rode under a telegraph* wire from which a kestrel flew off. I mentioned the previous scene to another rider and he said, "Yes, I saw lots of blackbirds." Ok, maybe he meant "black birds" but he definitely said "blackbirds".
*Why do we still call them telegraph wires? When did anybody last send a telegraph?