Here are the covers of my books flocking together.
Birds of a feather may flock together but most of them don't like eating together. There's a "pecking order," the higher ranking birds will chase lower ranking birds away. And there's a "pecking distance." Birds stay far enough from the next bird so they won't get pecked. The only birds we see that cluster like bees on the suet feeder and don't peck at their neighbours are the little bushtits. And so to Shakespeare's birds.
In the late nineteenth century a group of well-meaning Shakespeare lovers decided it would be a tribute to the bard to bring birds mentioned in his plays to North America. In Central Park, New York City, they released six pairs of starlings. Oh unhappy day. They were in bird heaven and very quickly began breeding and breeding and have spread from one end of the United States and Canada to the other. They are pests and bullies.
Perhaps it was the same group who released breeding pairs of what we call English sparrows. They are not sparrows but weaver finches and in parts of Canada they have pushed our beautiful blue birds almost to the point of no return. A group of birders have built nesing boxes for the bluebirds and the access holes are too small for the sparrows.
Writing about birds that don't belong. On the big island of Hawaii I heard a cardinal singing and sure enough, someone had brought cardinals from North America to the island.
Having gone on long enough about birds, I hope you blog readers have visited my web site, http://www.anitabirt.com/ and caught up on my latest release, Isabelle's Story. It's a historical romance and follows on from Isabelle's Diary, a contemporary romance with a paranormal twist. Love stories to enjoy. My first book with Cerridwen Press, A Very Difficult Man, is a historical romance. Excerpts of my books are on my web site. Go have a look.
Anita
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