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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I am currently reading an unpublished book on the author's reminiscences of his bird-watching rambles in the late 1930's up until around 1942. I thought people might be interested in his description of the Dumbles. "In my district the largest common for miles around is the Dumbles, which lies about half-way between Heanor Gate and a small village known as Denby Common. It consists of a wide, gorse-clad waste that slopes down to a little brook at the bottom of a wooded dell. On occasion, after a careless rambler has set fire to the gorse, the Dumbles becomes a desert of blackened shrubs; but mostly it is a colourful place, especially in early summer, when its broad slopes are all ablaze with gold." The chapter, as the rest of the book, goes on to talk about the bird watching in the area - in this case he finds a cuckoo's egg in a whinchat's nest, listens to the skylarks, and grabs hold of a grass snake which was heading for the next, depositing it a good distance away to protect the birds.[/quote]
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The Dumbles
replied on: 11/13/2005 11:03:44 AM

I am currently reading an unpublished book on the author's reminiscences of his bird-watching rambles in the late 1930's up until around 1942.

I thought people might be interested in his description of the Dumbles.

"In my district the largest common for miles around is the Dumbles, which lies about half-way between Heanor Gate and a small village known as Denby Common. It consists of a wide, gorse-clad waste that slopes down to a little brook at the bottom of a wooded dell. On occasion, after a careless rambler has set fire to the gorse, the Dumbles becomes a desert of blackened shrubs; but mostly it is a colourful place, especially in early summer, when its broad slopes are all ablaze with gold."

The chapter, as the rest of the book, goes on to talk about the bird watching in the area - in this case he finds a cuckoo's egg in a whinchat's nest, listens to the skylarks, and grabs hold of a grass snake which was heading for the next, depositing it a good distance away to protect the birds.

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