Out 24 hours a day @TheGreenMan - eating..... Blackbirds aren't quite at the stripping berries stage here, but they're more than welcome any time. The goldies decided to visit yesterday - maybe they were hoping for birthday cake [younger fairylet's b'day] Spiders on their misty webs this morning. Think he's eaten the fly he had there yesterday
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
He was there yesterday along with a few more of his chums @Fran IOM .
The webs were lovely yesterday and today with all the mist on them, although you can't see it too clearly on that photo. The ones in the hedges and all along the lanes this morning were lovely.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I felt bad one day @Fran IOM - I have a tomato plant which comes in at night to the kitchen [no more room in greenhouse] and I just stick it on the table near the window. In the morning, I saw Mr Spider had created a lovely web on it spreading across to the table edge. I leant over to look more closely, and managed to stick my hand right on the bit where the web was attached to the edge. Clumsy mare. My guilt haunted me all day
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl. Mr Spider was never going to be allowed to make his home in your kitchen and you would have carried the tomato plant outside anyway. Bet your guilt lasted a split second!
Here is Tootoo, our friendly woodpigeon. We are having coffee on the patio, and he/she has turned up for a handout. Very happy to eat out of my hand. Not sure where it learnt that habit. Our first contact with it was a couple of years ago, when it wandered up while I was gardening, and basically pestered me until I gave it some food. I’m sure I’m not the only ‘donor’ round here.
'My' pigeon [Dave] is too shy to eat from my hand @Ergates, much to my annoyance considering how much he eats. He's been coming in for about 18 months or so, and sometimes just sits - usually on a warm bit of fence. Occasionally on the bucket I use for my daily prunings and spent flowers, as he did last September. At least he sat facing the right way - he'd have tipped it over if he'd been the other way round Mr Spider was an outdoor spider @Fran IOM, so he'd started his web when the tomato was outside. He must have shifted to a more suitable plant when he realised I was going to be shifting his 'site' in and out every day! The house spiders are more than welcome. I have plenty of those
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Blackbirds aren't quite at the stripping berries stage here, but they're more than welcome any time.
The goldies decided to visit yesterday - maybe they were hoping for birthday cake [younger fairylet's b'day]
Spiders on their misty webs this morning. Think he's eaten the fly he had there yesterday
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The webs were lovely yesterday and today with all the mist on them, although you can't see it too clearly on that photo. The ones in the hedges and all along the lanes this morning were lovely.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
In the morning, I saw Mr Spider had created a lovely web on it spreading across to the table edge.
I leant over to look more closely, and managed to stick my hand right on the bit where the web was attached to the edge. Clumsy mare.
My guilt haunted me all day
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
He's been coming in for about 18 months or so, and sometimes just sits - usually on a warm bit of fence. Occasionally on the bucket I use for my daily prunings and spent flowers, as he did last September.
At least he sat facing the right way - he'd have tipped it over if he'd been the other way round
Mr Spider was an outdoor spider @Fran IOM, so he'd started his web when the tomato was outside. He must have shifted to a more suitable plant when he realised I was going to be shifting his 'site' in and out every day!
The house spiders are more than welcome. I have plenty of those
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...