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Side-effect of Storm Ciara??

WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575
in Wildlife gardening
Extremely windy here in coastal SW Wales - I'm about 2kms from the coastline. Opened my greenhouse slide door to find a frantic cock Goldfinch trying desperately to get out...!! How on earth did it get in - all vents, windows & doors firmly closed.? Yes - I've left the door open, so maybe it'll decided to rejoin the flock feasting on  'ninja' seed (as my granddaughter calls it..)!!
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just had a huge gust here with torrential sideways rain. The birds are still trying to make it onto the bird feeder though!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Is that yours Pansyface? Do you need a man with a chainsaw? Are you OK?

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wishing all your greenhouses the best of health
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited February 2020
    Possibly one of my relatives then.  My mother and her parents were born there. Her paternal grandfathers line runs there until we lose any records in the parish.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I think there must be an incident on the M1 near us. We have a police helicopter hovering, that is when he isn't going backwards with the wind.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have lost three fence panels to date, and lots of tree limbs blocking the roads ( was like a slalom going into town this morning) Just seen a post saying a local windmill has lost its dome and sails!
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287

  • WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575
    Update on Mr Goldfinch: Having tempted him towards the open door with a scattering of sunflower hearts (which he scoffed on his way out), he rejoined the 'family flock' members who awaited his arrival in a nearby hardy fuchsia bush. Much sniggering and chatter from the juveniles & a fair bit of "Where the Moses have YOU been..?" from Mrs Goldfinch, no doubt!! All's well that end's well or so they say! [photos of the happy couple may possibly be available - if it ever stops raining!!].
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Side effect of Storm Ciara?  Another lesson on how to pronounce unpronounceable Irish spellings!  (I can never remember how to pronounce the Irish PM's title.  In this house he's know as the Irish TickTock.  lol)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Might not be ticking much longer if tonight's election results carry on in the same vain.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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