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and registering a plethora of birds near here
with the now-indispensible Merlin app courtesy of Cornell University: reed bunting (plentiful, loud
and often visible), house martin, barn swallow, treecreeper, oystercatcher, spotted flycatcher (a
rarity!), chiffchaff, wren, blackbird, skylark, goldfinch, woodpigeon.
As well as being a weekend of stupendous music-making (I have yet to write up the review but shall
post a link when I've done so), it was also a chance to see an old friend I haven't spent any quality time
with for years. Even managed to squeeze in light Sunday lunch chez Bella near Orford, with her
mother Vanessa (left) and friends Lysander (foreground right) and his partner Daniel. They came to
the LPO concert the previous evening and the astounding recital by the beautiful, charismatic baritone
Andrè Schuen and great pianist Julius Drake (unsurpassable Schumann, stunning new Larcher cycle
on epigrammatic poems by W. G. Sebald).
Can't leave out the adorable Quinc(e?)y.
