A visitor...

As a break from all the gloom, in April 2020, just as the covid lockdowns were biting, we had a visitor, who is still here. One night, I went out to lock the doors and heard an odd humming noise. I looked up at the clothesline and straight above me was a tawny frogmouth, wings half-outstretched and making their usual low hum. While I was standing uncert…