On Birds in the Garden

Our small front garden is full of largish shrubs and so has quite dense foliage. My Lovely Wife has been putting up bird feeders for years. We have a double nesting box. It's been a little haven for small birds for a while.

In the last year or so we've noticed an increase in the number and the variety of birds in garden including this week a Greater Spotted Woodpecker which we've seen twice.

I'm not sure what is driving the increase in birdlife. Perhaps a recovery or change in population caused by different patterns of human life during the peak COVID years. Perhaps it just takes 10 years to fully establish a little wildlife sanctuary. Perhaps a few other people nearby have also made positive changes and we've accidentally created a wildlife corridor. Perhaps random chance.

Anyway it is nice and the woodpecker in particular is very fine.

On Remaking Movies as Marvel Super Hero Movies

I am not a great fan of superhero movies and to be honest less a fan of the superhero movies of the last 10 or 15 years. I've seen a fair few Marvel movies in recent years and not been very excited about them. Prompted by seeing a poster for the Flash film on a bus I was mulling over the reasons on the walk to work but distracted myself by wondering what a Marvel movie remake of Road to Perdition would be like.

What would Marvel movie remakes of of other films be like.

The current list I'm thinking about include

Road to Perdition

Ice Cold in Alex

His Girl Friday

Rashomon

Doctor Strangelove

Billy Liar

Notting Hill

Whisky Galore

Usual Suspects

Silent Running