Met this little fellow outside last night. Not very big and an interesting yellowish colour. Tend to see more very dark, almost blackish young toads in the garden, camouflaged in the open compost bags is a favourite spot!
I like him @Ergates . Poor old toads get a bad press - those hot frogs get all the attention The wee juvie robin [the youngest of two] was around yesterday. Near the back door, looking for some treats I duly obliged and he came on the steps
Then I joined him outside - he was finding something good in the pots after I took out the sweet peas
and then there's Dave....there's always Dave....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My garden appears to have become a creche for young wood pigeons🙄 They keep following the adults around watching what they eat, and having a go themselves. The funny things to watch, is them trying to work out how to get up on a fence or wall, they don't seem to understand the mechanism. 🤣
Dave just about manages to get his fat a*se up onto the screen. The wood gets nice and warm on a sunny day, so he parks himself there if I'm in the garden. There's a pretender to his throne, who's obviously worked out that he waits for me to come out in the morning to give him some breakfast, so it's been sitting on the roof instead. Cheeky sod. It's also started chasing Dave, so I've been leaving the breakfast till later to confuse it. Dave was outside almost all day yesterday, making up for the lack of food he had on Saturday
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have a resident collard dove, who sits on a particular branch in the hawthorn. Its taken a couple of years ( as they are so skittish) but it will come down to eat while I'm putting out the bird food now. It lost its partner (to the sparrow hawk) but brought its new one this year.
Dave is just such a perfect name for a woodpigeon. I do love to watch them trying to problem solve, bless them they are just not that intellectually gifted.
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Lovely photo @Liriodendron- and as the others have said - fluke or not, they all count. The phones nowadays are really excellent.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The wee juvie robin [the youngest of two] was around yesterday.
Near the back door, looking for some treats
I duly obliged and he came on the steps
Then I joined him outside - he was finding something good in the pots after I took out the sweet peas
and then there's Dave....there's always Dave....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...