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Hope your new birds breed for you, Spring can't be far away now surely.
I can hear heavy rain now. Pity it didn't come yesterday and clear away the snow.

Looked up the hoopoes like the look of them but hadn't heard of rouls and couldn't find them.

Sorry Dorothy, they're called Roul Roul Partridge or Crested Wood Partridge.

They are pretty especially the hen.
Love that green and makes a change for hens not to be brown.