Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. Really excited to have found it. The photographs of your gardens are really inspiring, and I can see the forum pages are going to be so helpful. Have pottered in my garden in Guernsey for years but have really got the 'gardening bug' this year!
Welcome Tabitha - hope you find lots of help, as well as a few laughs, here on the forum. This thread is always wonderful - especially on a wet, miserable day!
We have another regular poster from Guernsey too
He does look like a cross between several birds Joybell...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hi Tabitharose, - a fellow Guern - aren't we lucky to live on such a beautiful island even when it is shrouded in fog! Welcome to this brilliant forum. I love the pussy cat - are all ginger cats male?
What a beautiful garden you have Beaus and what a lot of work you've put into it. I especially like your big water bowl for Beau in the gravel bed.
Wonky you have worked wonders there, Green fingers obviously run in your family.
Joybell I don't think your bird is a cross. It's a genetic condition called leucistic and is apparently quite common in blackbirds. I just looked it up.
Shame about the magpie Rb but you're right, it's out of it's misery now.
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It looks like the bird has dipped its head in a tin of paint.
Don't take any notice of the washing, I don't.
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum. Really excited to have found it. The photographs of your gardens are really inspiring, and I can see the forum pages are going to be so helpful. Have pottered in my garden in Guernsey for years but have really got the 'gardening bug' this year!
Welcome Tabitha
Thank-you B3 and Runnybeak
This is only photograph I have at the moment - this is William enjoying the catmint growing in my greenhouse!
Welcome Tabitha - hope you find lots of help, as well as a few laughs, here on the forum. This thread is always wonderful - especially on a wet, miserable day!
We have another regular poster from Guernsey too
He does look like a cross between several birds Joybell...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Welcome Tabitha and William
When the gardening bug bites there's no cure. Enjoy.
Hi Tabitharose, - a fellow Guern - aren't we lucky to live on such a beautiful island even when it is shrouded in fog! Welcome to this brilliant forum. I love the pussy cat - are all ginger cats male?
Welcome Tabitharose
1Runnybeak1 have no idea what's going on.
Fairygirl yes some sort of bird cross.
Then the hedgehog house gets dragged across the flower border and onto the path. No way it's a cat, but maybe a fox or badger after the food.
You'll need to get a camera to see what your trespasser is Joybell!
Does the bird get bullied and ostracised by the other birds? That seems to be a common occurrence with birds that look different.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Welcome Tabitha
.
What a beautiful garden you have Beaus and what a lot of work you've put into it
. I especially like your big water bowl for Beau in the gravel bed
.
Wonky you have worked wonders there, Green fingers obviously run in your family
.
Joybell I don't think your bird is a cross. It's a genetic condition called leucistic and is apparently quite common in blackbirds
. I just looked it up
.
Shame about the magpie Rb but you're right, it's out of it's misery now.
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