I am so happy/excited 😃 When we moved here I tried to recreate a ‘situation’ I’d had at a previous house ...at right angles to the sitting room window, (in view of my usual seat) we placed a trellis fence with Clem Freckles ... in front of this we planted a Vib. Bodnantense, a Rosa glauca (thank you @fidgetbones 😊) and a buddleja.
In the past this combination had attracted wrens and other small insectivorous birds seeking food and shelter in the winter. The clematis has covered the trellis and a couple of years ago we fixed a small wooden open-front nestbox under the overhanging foliage.
Over the years, as the plants have grown, we’ve had regular visits from longtailed tits, dunnocks, sparrows and a robin ... and just now, as I sat down with a book and looked out of the window a wren flew from the buddleja into the nestbox ... I can’t explain how excited I am 🤩🥳😍🙃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh that's so exciting @Dovefromabove 😃 Hopefully it's a male looking for next years nesting sites to entice the females, and hopefully she will nest in yours.😁
😊 I’m wondering whether he/she will use the box as a winter shelter as they often use ‘holes’ as winter roosts (hence the name Troglodytes troglodytes) ... it would be super exciting if a female chose it for a nest in spring ... you’d have to scrape me off the ceiling 🙃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Does anyone string up peanuts in shells for the blue tits? I threaded some on garden wire and hung them in the garden a few days ago. Yesterday I watched a squirrel take the whole lot still on the wire and drag them around the garden, nibbling them off one at a time to bury. He struggled a little trying to pull his hoard through the honeysuckle and across the trellis before he managed to get to the ground, but he was determined the birds were not going to have them!
I wish I'd had my camera handy.
A gardener's work is never at an end - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
Lovely jubbly @Dovefromabove. I don't yet have a very suitable spot for nest boxes. Nowhere that wouldn't be a bit vulnerable. Hope you get a wee family
I went to get the post and there was a moth on the outside of the door
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Our" roe deer was out in the rain munching rotting windfall cidery apples this morning - just like teenagers drinking cider in the Squirrel Bar She has her full winter coat on now so is much darker and chunkier looking. It was raining solidly and rather too dark for photos but I am sure she will be back later - she was disturbed when one of our neighbours had the cheek to come of their house into the road.
As long as she doesn't come back shouting that she loves you @steephill
Had a look round various sites, and I think 'my' moth could be a Feathered Thorn. Lovely wee thing. He was there all afternoon. Maybe @wild edgescould confirm if he's looking in.
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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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wish I'd taken my camera when I was out earlier. Lovely buzzard sitting on a frowsty tree along the lane
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When we moved here I tried to recreate a ‘situation’ I’d had at a previous house ...at right angles to the sitting room window, (in view of my usual seat) we placed a trellis fence with Clem Freckles ... in front of this we planted a Vib. Bodnantense, a Rosa glauca (thank you @fidgetbones 😊) and a buddleja.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
... it would be super exciting if a female chose it for a nest in spring ... you’d have to scrape me off the ceiling 🙃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I threaded some on garden wire and hung them in the garden a few days ago.
Yesterday I watched a squirrel take the whole lot still on the wire and drag them around the garden, nibbling them off one at a time to bury. He struggled a little trying to pull his hoard through the honeysuckle and across the trellis before he managed to get to the ground, but he was determined the birds were not going to have them!
I wish I'd had my camera handy.
I went to get the post and there was a moth on the outside of the door
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Had a look round various sites, and I think 'my' moth could be a Feathered Thorn. Lovely wee thing. He was there all afternoon.
Maybe @wild edgescould confirm if he's looking in.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...