Hello Mike. Compliments of the season to you. I love your post - so descriptive and your references to folk lore. Its a pity not everyone can share the 'goodwill to all men' philosophy.
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Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
You can't get much more poetic than saying we are made of stardust, or that bees dance and rats laugh!
Or that the wonder of the plant world is created from water, thin air and sunlight. Or Particles that are also Waves and can be in all places at the same time but you can only find them if you measure them. All science
We've not seen any redwings or fieldfares here yet ... but the blackbirds are having a good go at the holly and pyracantha berries ........ however they can't get at the ones on the ends of the thinnest branches ... with any luck we'll have some waxwings visit us to feast on those
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce - super picture of squirrel and holly berries. Hope you manage to keep some for home decoration or are they out of reach? My Amelanchier this year had lots of berries but the resident blackbirds made short shrift of those over the weeks once they became apparent in the tree.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Perhaps the fact that the berries are disappearing quickly this year is because a warm dry spring and early summer led to lots of successful broods so there have been more blackbirds/thrushes about this autumn?
Certainly that late wet spring we had a few years ago meant lots of failed nests and there weren't as many birds on my feeders that winter
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Hello Mike. Compliments of the season to you. I love your post - so descriptive and your references to folk lore. Its a pity not everyone can share the 'goodwill to all men' philosophy.
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Hi Hazel.
You can't get much more poetic than saying we are made of stardust, or that bees dance and rats laugh!
Or that the wonder of the plant world is created from water, thin air and sunlight. Or Particles that are also Waves and can be in all places at the same time but you can only find them if you measure them. All science
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Buttercupdays .......... now that really is poetry
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've not seen any redwings or fieldfares here yet ... but the blackbirds are having a good go at the holly and pyracantha berries ........ however they can't get at the ones on the ends of the thinnest branches ... with any luck we'll have some waxwings visit us to feast on those
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce - super picture of squirrel and holly berries. Hope you manage to keep some for home decoration or are they out of reach? My Amelanchier this year had lots of berries but the resident blackbirds made short shrift of those over the weeks once they became apparent in the tree.
Perhaps the fact that the berries are disappearing quickly this year is because a warm dry spring and early summer led to lots of successful broods so there have been more blackbirds/thrushes about this autumn?
Certainly that late wet spring we had a few years ago meant lots of failed nests and there weren't as many birds on my feeders that winter
The numbers for the Big Garden Birdwatch 2018 will be interesting given the good nesting season in 2017 https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.