Since I've been spending some inside time this summer, I made something to hang on one of our empty dining room walls- a penciled collection of collective nouns for groups of birds. Isn't the language really beautiful? It creates some wonderful images in your mind- a tiding of magpies, richness of martens, bouquet of pheasants, murmuration of starlings, spring of teal, parliament of owls, watch of nightingails...
