Finding Beauty in Birds

“Galliano dares us to find beauty in the dark, creating a world at once delicate and distorted, hard to look at, yet impossible to look away from” says Susan Zelouf… Let’s talk about birds. Do you have a favourite? Barn Owl, Bean Goose, Black Guillemot. Corncrake, Cuckoo, Curlew. Garden Warbler, Goldfinch, Goshawk. Irish birds all, and we’re only lucky-dipping from the first seven letters of the alphabet.

Spring mornings over coffee, we watch neighbourhood birds fly at the hanging feeders in our walled garden, scoring a fat-coated seed here, scattering a few errant suet-glazed nuts on the frosty ground there, morsels for the clean-up crew, birds not physiologically suited to clinging to mesh, still hungry though, looking to score. Can you name them? House Sparrow (poet Mary Oliver’s “dun-colored darlings”), Song Thrush, Skylark. Each brown bird has its own distinctive markings, its own particular call, language, dialect, each one a beauty. “Know thy neighbour as thyself,” urged writer Pearl S Buck; we’d wager that, albeit grudgingly, you can tell the Kardashians apar

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