I spoke too soon about rain, but most of my walk was dry. The wind got up too. Never mind. No woolly aphids here @Dovefromabove. Just woolly jumpers....
'My' goldfinches have been a bit absent recently, but they'll be back, I'm sure.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Long-tailed tits (lollipops -- a flock of them on a bird feeder reminds one of a glass jar of lollipops in a sweet shop.) Recently I was filling a feeder among trees, popular with the long-tailed tits. As I was hooking the feeder back onto the branch they came. They fluttered around my head, landing briefly on my shoulders and hat, quite unconcerned by me. It was magical. And for a brief moment in time, I was a lollipop lady!
I've a great reason to be cheerful, after a negative covid test this morning we are off to visit son in Australia tomorrow morning. It will be such a joy to see him after 2 1/2 years. The garden will just have to take care of itself!!
I will put a sign out directing the Goldfinches up to the UK, I have used about 45k of sunflower hearts this winter on flock of about 35 I'm not buying any more! 🙄
We occasionally get the long-tailed ones here but mostly, coal, blue & great. I removed our fat feeder for a couple of days as we were getting a very persistent green parakeet taking the lot. It was great watching it looking very confused just after I took it down.
A lovely experience @Woodgreen The coal tits here are now quite bold and unphased by me when I'm quite near them. Those parakeets have made inroads round here now @Allotment Boy. On the news website, in the photo section, there's a pic of one, possibly seeking out a nest site in a tree in the adjacent NT garden. They've been around this area for a couple of years now, and the more severe [or more normal] winter last year obviously didn't affect them either. They've been in parks in Glasgow for a long time.
I had a request for a meter reading today. The Ides of March.... ..but it was accompanied by this 'fun fact' which did make me laugh: "The first bus in Britain to be powered by human excrement ran from Bristol to Bath on the Number 2 route."
I knew some bus services were sh*t, but that's something entirely different!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Talking about birds....hubby just banged on the bathroom window and told me that the goldfish are indeed in the pond, not scoffed by the heron after all
Scammers seem to be getting more stupid, at least some of them. I received an e-mail, supposedly from Norton, to tell me that my McAfee subscription was expiring. I wouldn't have thought is was that difficult for the scammers to at least claim it was all for one company. It was a wee bit of a giveaway. 2nd giveaway was that I have never used McAfee.
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No woolly aphids here @Dovefromabove. Just woolly jumpers....
'My' goldfinches have been a bit absent recently, but they'll be back, I'm sure.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Recently I was filling a feeder among trees, popular with the long-tailed tits. As I was hooking the feeder back onto the branch they came. They fluttered around my head, landing briefly on my shoulders and hat, quite unconcerned by me.
It was magical.
And for a brief moment in time, I was a lollipop lady!
The garden will just have to take care of itself!!
The coal tits here are now quite bold and unphased by me when I'm quite near them.
Those parakeets have made inroads round here now @Allotment Boy. On the news website, in the photo section, there's a pic of one, possibly seeking out a nest site in a tree in the adjacent NT garden. They've been around this area for a couple of years now, and the more severe [or more normal] winter last year obviously didn't affect them either. They've been in parks in Glasgow for a long time.
I had a request for a meter reading today. The Ides of March....
..but it was accompanied by this 'fun fact' which did make me laugh:
"The first bus in Britain to be powered by human excrement ran from Bristol to Bath on the Number 2 route."
I knew some bus services were sh*t, but that's something entirely different!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60756870
Her poor husband has been amazing.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.