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"Birdwatching"

Somehow, while in Kraków I became a bird-watcher, which is rather ironic seeing as I don't like birds that much and sometimes they scare me. Only when there is an army of pigeons flying at or just above me (as in most European cities).

On Tuesday morning, myself, Julia from Switzerland, and Andrzej from Poland (the official bird-watcher) met at 7.00 outside of Signalhuset (mine and Julia's residence building). We biked through a nice path that Julia had found earlier in her stay here. It was a very different view from the sunny, warm, beautiful birdwatching exhibition we went on in Poland. This time it was rainy and cold, but beautiful nonetheless.

I am calling this 'birdwatching' but really I just go because it is relaxing and the landscape is beautiful.

And the birds are beautiful too...as long as they keep their distance!

We stopped, parked our bikes, and trudged through a swamp-like area, up a hill, to a park bench that was completely soaked. It had a great view though and would be a perfect place for a pic-nic (in the nicer weather of course).

Maybe "leapt" is a better word than "trudged"

It was a nice little trip and we saw plenty of birds - mainly a lot of ducks, and birds that I don't know the name of but they are black and white and like to sing. We saw a quail in a big open field so we decided to go closer to it. Andrzej went through the fence, and then I trip over it...it was electric but luckily I didn't get shocked! Half way across the field it suddenly dawned on me that we were in a field full of horses when I saw some of the owners returning from a horse ride. My yellow coat isn't the best camouflage and so we turned back without seeing the quail up-close.


We finished our morning with a pic-nic breakfast complete with homemade Polish cookies, apples, and chocolate covered plums!