In the park this morning I saw the moorhens for the first time this year. One of them was out on the path 5 metres or so from the pond, you don’t usually see that. Trod back when B and I appeared. There are a couple of them there on the pond and also a couple of ducks. The reeds have been cut down; has this to do with a lack of food or of cover and them going further afield. But in any event the pond was frozen for a good part of the winter and the Holden Caulfield question remains.
I suppose there is a contest between the moorhens and ducks. In past years the moorhens have won.
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