@Ergates - two years is such a long time for you to wait to see your son and grandson. Bliss indeed to see them again after so long. How exciting @Dovefromabove! We moved a nest box that had been inspected a few times over the years it was there by coal tits but rejected. It's now on a N. facing fence rather than a W. facing wall, and behind the pittosporum tree so we're hopeful for this year. Couldn't sleep again last night so all behind today. Hate that feeling. But am making the most of the last sunny day for a while.
Don’t want to get any closer …. keeping the big table between us and the nestbox …can you see it in the corner there? If you zoom you can see grass and moss …
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It's an amazing sound isn't it @punkdoc ... I last heard one at the Hen Reedbeds near Southwold ... I often used to park there to 'chill out' after visiting Ma.
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It's a nest made of dried grass and moss @Pat E , and trailing over the edge there's some of the Three-corned Leek OH pulled up the other day. I've not got close enough to see if there's any eggs, but if theyre still adding bits of greenery I doubt there's any eggs yet. We'll have to watch and see if it's dunnocks or robins going in and out.
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Hello everyone, it's now clouding over and the temperature's dropped a bit after being sunny and warmish this morning. Had to buy and post in a hurry a birthday card to my eldest brother's partner, Facebook is sometimes useful for reminders! Out in the garden again, watering and mulching another long bed against a wall. My Carpenteria Californica had been badly hit by the storms last month, it's evergreen leaves are all dried up and crispy so I've just spent an hour pruning them all off. A tedious job but there are signs of new growth so fingers crossed it will survive, it's quite a tender shrub but absolutely gorgeous in full bloom, big white blooms with yellow stamens.
Didn't have a good night, thought I probably was getting the virus with a scratchy throat but tested negative again this morning. My poor sis and her partner on a much needed holiday in Norfolk at a rented cotttage have just gone down with it today and are going home tomorrow. Such a shame. We should have been eating our cream tea in the hotel this afternoon, but that's a very minor regret in the circumstances.
Love the photo @chicky, hope you had a good time in Iceland and nice that the girls were able to take you out.
Can't believe it's two years since you last saw your son and grandson @Ergates, bliss indeed. Do I remember rightly they live right up in the North? A long journey if so down to Devon.
Glad you survived your hectic day DD, reminds me I've got to bake cakes soon for an AGM we're helping to organise. What fun to have garden visits again @Obelixx. I had hoped to go to Malvern with a friend this year as per usual but couldn't make any of the dates.
None of our bird boxes have ever been used unfortunately Dove, don't know why not.
Son and family ( two grandsons) only live in Bath, so not a long journey. However, it’s the furthest we’ve travelled since lockdown, so very relieved the journey went well. Now waiting for daughter to recover and test negative, and we can organise a visit with her. All seems more feasible having passed the first hurdle.
Oh, sorry, @Ergates, must have mistaken your son's location for somebody else's. Providing OH is okay and I'm still testing negative by Friday I'm due to go down to my daughter's in Devon, so will wave to you as I go past!
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How exciting @Dovefromabove! We moved a nest box that had been inspected a few times over the years it was there by coal tits but rejected. It's now on a N. facing fence rather than a W. facing wall, and behind the pittosporum tree so we're hopeful for this year.
Couldn't sleep again last night so all behind today. Hate that feeling. But am making the most of the last sunny day for a while.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Back from our walk at a nearby RSPB reserve, heard a Bittern booming, very exciting.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Didn't have a good night, thought I probably was getting the virus with a scratchy throat but tested negative again this morning. My poor sis and her partner on a much needed holiday in Norfolk at a rented cotttage have just gone down with it today and are going home tomorrow. Such a shame. We should have been eating our cream tea in the hotel this afternoon, but that's a very minor regret in the circumstances.
Love the photo @chicky, hope you had a good time in Iceland and nice that the girls were able to take you out.
Can't believe it's two years since you last saw your son and grandson @Ergates, bliss indeed. Do I remember rightly they live right up in the North? A long journey if so down to Devon.
Glad you survived your hectic day DD, reminds me I've got to bake cakes soon for an AGM we're helping to organise.
What fun to have garden visits again @Obelixx. I had hoped to go to Malvern with a friend this year as per usual but couldn't make any of the dates.
None of our bird boxes have ever been used unfortunately Dove, don't know why not.
Now waiting for daughter to recover and test negative, and we can organise a visit with her.
All seems more feasible having passed the first hurdle.
Providing OH is okay and I'm still testing negative by Friday I'm due to go down to my daughter's in Devon, so will wave to you as I go past!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.