The Woodland Garden (Wednesday 6th April 2022)

I spent some time sitting in the porch staring at the bird feeders, trying to learn to tell the difference at a glance between coal tits and great tits. According to the books, the coal tits have a white patch on their nape, which is fine if they are facing away, and the great tits have a black band down their chests. The problem is that in actuality it isn't so clear cut. The pictures in the book aren't all to the same scale so judging by size can be misleading and I thought I'd seen one bird with both white nape and black band but that doesn't seem to exist as a species.
The resident Mr McCartney has learned how to balance on the perch and I got this one (and only) shot before I'd changed the AP settings, so the slow shutter speed through double-glazing has provided a less than sharp shot.

L.
Thursday 7.4.2022 (1225 hr)

Blip #3622 (#3372 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #011
Blips/Extras In 2022 #060/265 + #025/100 Extras
Day #4397 (1029 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2766 (#2606 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-1 Mark II and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Alabaster dePlume - The Sound Of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit (2022)
(From the album Gold)
I might not have blipped today, but I wanted to share my discovery of a musician I heard Gideon Coe's 6Music show that I hadn't come across before.
In late summer 2020 Alabaster dePlume (real name: Angus 'Gus' Fairburn, from Manchester) booked two weeks of sessions at the influential Total Refreshment Centre in London, recording to tape with Kristian Craig Robinson (aka Capitol K). He invited a different set of musicians each day, who would record the same tunes at the same speed so that Alabaster – who produced the record – could cut them together later, like ingredients. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” he says. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we've recorded.”
There were two rules that were essential to the process: that musicians wouldn’t be given enough time to rehearse and that they wouldn’t listen back to the music they recorded. “The method is part of the mission. It wasn’t like school. We had mayhem. We were having fun. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way,” he says. The saxophone leaves vibrating trails in the air. The Sound of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit is beauty and breath, generating the kind of deep warmth and connection that requires no lyrical explanation.
After the recording, the artist made a map, because frankly he needed a map after recording more than 17 hours of music. The map dictated which bits of each session to pull into the orbit of the record and it was drawn on a long scroll of paper with lines drawn across it, each line representing one analog tape. The triangles, dots and colors – red for fire, pink for beauty and blue for breath – shaped what emerged. The map has since been requisitioned for a gallery exhibition, and a photograph appears on the GOLD artwork. - adapted from Lost Map Records notes