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Jude........My dog flatly refuses to walk on laminate flooring. When we visit my daughter, she has to put rugs down especially for him.

It has to be Axminster or Wilton carpet for him I'm afraid.

Am I allowed to look at your blog? and if so, how do I find it?

I'm not into blogs - never seen one..........how sad

Regards
Tec.

Ohhh, so its not an actual torch then, will take a look at that site though:o)) thanks.

Tec l have pm'd you.

The only treecreeper l have seen was in Sussex years ago, in the woods.

Don't see thushes her either, we have had one in garden approx 6 times but thats in the last 6 yrs

Nite nite:o)

jude

We have seen other paraqueets but think they have probably escaped at some time.

Hello Ann...abit like the park in London and the South downs in Sussex.

The pics are on the blog now:o))

jude x

Hi Folk,

Jude I have not got round to down loading pic yet sorry but the gardening has been calling. even the housework ( sorry for swearing ) has been left. and I should really get a bit of updating done on my tree.

Well away to do a bit more.

Hello all:o)

Thats ok Bellblair, l'm only teasing, when you are ready we'd love to see them:o))

Our Reed bunting is back, collecting food fast and furiously, a blue tit was on our little wall picking insects, l watched him through the binocs grabbing something from a cobweb.

We saw a dunnock feeding its chic on another wall, all of a sudden everything is happening.

The sparrow is still there chirping away and we can definately hear another chirp now, so we think its mum teaching babe.

Blackbirds, pigeons and doves a plenty. The crows will now feed off the lawn, are'nt they big??

Oh and a starling flew into the patio doors and stunned itself, l went out to check it 10 mins later as it lifted its head and took off...bless it:o)))

see yeh

jude:o)

Hi Folks,
Lots of fledglings around the garden - sparrows everywhere, greenfinches and blue tits. We seem to have more doves than usual.

Jude..........The pictures are brilliant - lovely. I did enjoy them. I see Madoc appears to be looking for food, like mine, always never far away from the food. If I am to ever contribute to your blog I will have to get my 14yr old grand daughter to teach me. You may, between you, drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and out of my cave.

Regards
Tec.

Hi all, I have just witnessed a midair fight between a magpie and a collared dove ! and the magpie lost...
I have noticed the last couple of days, one magpie feeding, and each time a pair of resident doves take a swipe at him. I guess it's the time of year, but never known a magpie to be outdone.lol

Maggie

We had a turtle dove on the lawn today.I have heard them in the trees before but had never seen one until today.

Hi Folks,

Wild and windy here today. The sea looks angry, everything in my garden getting battered with the wind screaming off the mountain - thought it was nearly summer?
The birds are hungry, with lots of fledglings being brought to feed,, the mums tend to feed the chicks on the ground beneath the feeders.

Jude........It all seems to be happening in your garden!...we had a nuthatch hit the window a while back, but it didn't survive. I was very sad about that, we don't see them often here.

Maggie.........Glad to hear the dove won the fight with the magpie. I dislike magpies, they are vicious birds. I watched one recently relentlessly chasing a blackbird until he managed to kill it.

Sharron..........I've never seen a turtle dove here, lots of collared doves. Did you know they didn't arrive in this country until about 1956, from North Africa - widespread now I think.

Ann.........Have you discovered what the small blue tit type birds are in Tenerife?

Regards
Tec.

Babies everwhere and the weather here is cold wet and not at all nice for them they hide in the hedge until peter rabbit comes along and starts to eat the new leaves.

Mrs pheseant layed an egg in the middle of our drive the other day,

OH has taken on a task of teaching youngsters next door about the bird etc 2 youngest only want to play with the birds but eldest takes copies of my pics to school etc and teacher would like OH to go and talk to them.

Hi all:o)

Don't know why but l started to type a post on here last night and ended up losing the site, so l went to bed:o(( no doubt pressed the wrong key...lol

Tec....thanks for the compliments re the blog:o) Madoc is always looking for food, which in away is good...this morning he got out the front door and took himself off to our new neighbour, just walked in...lol...all l had to do was rattle the biscuit dish:o))) The neighbour has a friend joining him soon and he has a dog!!!! hope they get on:o)
Yesss get your granddaughter to teach you, its so easy, you use the pc anyway....go for it!!

Sharron.....have never seen a Turtle dove, must look them up, are they simular to the Collared dove??

Magnolia........we have both birds in the garden, not seen them fighting, we did see a pair of male blackbirds last night having a tussle, they sort of ran towards each other on the lawn and chest to chest flew up squabbling, territorial l suppose?

Bellblair..... have been seeing the dunnock and her baby and still hearing/seeing the sparrow sitting on the fence. Is the egg still on the drive??
Aww thats lovely about your OH, is he going into the school? l bet the eldest is really pleased with themselves, l used to love taking nature things into school.
l remember taking a cows tongue into the science teacher many moons ago. l was to chuffed with it, l got it from a farm where l holidayed it was from stillborn calf....can't remember what the teachers reactions were now, probably disgusted...lol eewww sounds horrible now...lol

Hope the weather is good where ever you are, its sunny and bright here but keeps raining:o((

jude :o)

Hi Jude and everyone, it's a long time since I was on this sight, before we moved. I wish I could have brought my birds with me, there aren't so many here, Blackbirds, Collared Doves and Magpies, we hear the Chaffinches but not seen them yet. We had a pair of Jackdaws nesting in the chimney of the house across from our lounge window, one day the Magpie visited and the poor Jackdaws keep coming and looking at their nest and flying away again.
Carole our manager said there are a lot of Sparrows in the front gardens and a few different birds, it means going down to the community room and through the big doors into the garden, it is too far for me to go on my own.
I love it here though and wouldn't go back.


Caz xx

Hi Everyone,

Caz glad that you have settle on.
Jude a cows tounge I bet you teacher loved you not. weather here is cold wet and not at all nice. but they are promising us a good summer lol. Jude crows took the egg before we did. and I really must do those pics.

Bellblair....l think you're right:o)) lol

Caz....good to see you on here, so pleased you like where you are:o))

Poor Jackdaws:o((

take care:o)
jude xx

Hi Folks,
Baby birds all learnt to use the feeders - much to the relief of their mothers I expect. Today we have sparrows, greenfinches, blue & great tits, doves, and of course the marauding jackdaws. Yesterday a pheasant marched up the garden, doing his impression of the Grouse Whisky ad on the tele.

Jude......Ianto went walkabout recently too. He decided to visit the sheepdogs at the farm, but got a cool reception, and I had to rescue him.
I explained to him that if he wanted to be sheepdog, he would have to sleep in barn, and work for a living - he was not impressed at all.

Caz.......Hello - don't think we've "spoken" before. I expect there will be more birds around when they've all finished nesting.

Well daughter and co coming for weekend, and O/H just told me what's "to do" list, so I'd best get off here.

Regards
Tec.

Hello Tecwyn, pleased to meet you, hi everyone, oooh I have missed this thread. We heard a Robin yesterday and my hubby saw a couple of Greenfinches so it's not so bad up here. The other house had a massive garden full of trees and had fields at the back, this flat is in the middle of the village so it's no wonder there are not as many birds. The birds I do miss are the swifts, they should be arriving about now down at other house, I used to love watching and listening to them.

We had the most horrific rainstorm this afternoon, it woke me up, I could hear it on the roof, we are on the top floor, I couldn't believe it. Would you believe it has just started again. Got to get some good weather soon.

Caz xx

I have so many nests in our thick Yew Hedge.I think there are Pidgeons,Robins,Blackbirds,Wrens,and maybe some tits.They are all neighbours lol.Only problem is there are Magpies I think trying to get eggs.

Helen.......That sounds cozy :o) Those bloomin Magpies,,,,:o(

Y/Caz....sounds like you'll be seeing quite a few birds then and you're higher up too:o))

Tec....we used to have a pheasant, not seen him in ages. Like your discription.
Madoc has just made friends wqith 2 sheepdogs on his walks, they are noth quite young. Thing is he should'nt run around so much cause of his legs, especially one back and one front:o(((

More pics on the Blog:o)


jude


More pics on the blog

Tec
The small birds are definitely blue tits but they are a lot smaller than ours at home. We see quite a lot of them, just a pair feeding off insects in a shrub in the next garden. We also get a lot of canaries round here and boy can they sing another very small bird the male I asssume is the one that is more yellow/green than the female.

The female blackbird is very dark brown ,a lmost black I think which is why we thought hey were all black.

From a distance today we watched a large hawk, don't know what it was as it must have been several miles away we were on a hill looking down over the bay and the hawk was the other side of the bay.

The other animal life around here is of course the Gekos and lizards, a lot of them, very quick and fascinating to watch but OH doesn't like them too much,