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I will phone her after the holiday weekend.

AnninGlos. Today I spoke with the lady that writes in our village magazine, she thinks the gold crest is nesting in her neighbours fir tree and it mainly lives on a diet of insects but it seems if we get a couple of cold days they have been feeding on fragments of peanuts that she puts out, she said these small pieces of peanut are readily available in most garden centres.

thank you Lesley for that information

I think they were only pretending but I was watching a pair of robins in and out of a small blue tit sized box shaped like a house on the fence right outside our lounge window this evening. I don't think they will nest there, just trying it for size. But I think it would be too small for them. Shall keep an eye on it though.

Morning everyone:)

Only ever seen one Gold Crest and that was years ago.

Vic keeps reminding to tell you he saw Swifts on 9th April flying along the river Wye:))

Our Cormorants have moved on to breed, not too far away though....we think they are about 3 miles up the river:))

jude xx

Morning everyone
Plenty of activity in the garden, all our usual visitors. We are getting through so many sunflower seeds think I might need to take out a mortgage !! LOL Might need toget some more tomorrow.

Linda xxxx <3 <3 <3

I need some help! There is a pigeon trying to make babies, or whatever they do, in my beloved Jasmine! I need to discourage her as she has brought her whole family with her and they are all hovering on the wall and pooing a lot. I have tried shouting at her but she ignores me. If I put up a scarecrow do you think it would deter her?

:-S :-)

Swifts, lovely Jude. Are they early or about the right time? I never know.

Don't know BC Just keep disturbing them so they can't nest, don't put any feed out. Get doggie to bark at them.

I haven't visited this lovely thread in ages and ages .

On our allotments I started feeding the birds a few weeks ago , I have a regular pair of Dunnocks , a host of Tits , at least one Robin and a Mrs Blackbird ( but she does seem to feed , she has a nest in the thorn hedge that backs the plot ) .

I don't think that anything beats sitting very still in a chair , with a cup of rapidly cooling tea , watching the small flitting and trying to work out who one is seeing ........ lol

Hallo Amanda, sounds a lovely way to pass the day. As well as all the digging of course Lol

l bought some items from this website, so l now get emails, butt his one says about them being on face book and chatting about wildlife, incase anyone is interested go to your FB page and then search the link below:)


http://www.arkwildlife.co.uk/

jude xx

l'm gardening and just popped in for lunch:) ;-)

Hi Jude and all
Does anyone know why the Squirrel in our garden seems to be missing it's ears?????.I'm thinking it could be some kind of disease.It didn't actually look that fit.It seemed slower than usual and looked quite old.I have tried to get a photo of it showing the head and it does look very odd.Jude I will send one to you,maybe someone will know the answer.Oh dear I will be all worried about it now :-(

Haven't any idea Jane. Do you have a wildlife rescue place in your area? Maybe they can help you.

I have sent Jude some photos today of a huge crow sitting in our apple tree eating the fat from a large bamboo container that we have hung there. None of the smaller birds have gone for this and it has been there for at least 2 moths. the crow had a good feed early this morning and has just come back for another feed, his long beak can get inside the bamboo easily. He/she is fascinating to watch.

Ann .I just had a google and it could have Squirrel Pox!!.It's eyes looked bulgy too like rabbits with Myxomatosis :-S.
I look forward to seeing your Crow.
Just before the Squirrel arrived on the coconut fat feeder I was watching a Robin feeding it's baby with the fat.The Baby was huge and much bigger that the parent lol.I missed getting a snap of that.

Afternoon.... :-P

Just in from work:))

Thanks Ann got the pics, they are lovely:)

Jane...look sort of forward to your photo's too!!

Vic saw 2 Longtailed Tits in garden earlier....trust me to have missed them, not seen them here in a couple of years.

We also got a pair of Green finches quite regularily now and a Dunnnock is back.

Not many HOUSE SPARROWS though, RSPB are quite concerned about their decline:((

Off to check emails now.

jude xx ;-)

Jane....awww he looks so cute bless him, l wonder why this is??

Will add to blog asap, must do dinner first,l'm starving.

jude

Jude one of my friends thinks it looks very pregnant :-D.Not sure about the trouble with no ears though :-S.I'm hoping it will be back later today once we have finished in the garden.
I bought a new Olive tree this morning as the one I had has been killed off by the cold winter.I thought it was £60.Turned out to be £90.....oooops!.But it does look nice :-D :-D.OH is doing a massive cutting back on the 'dead one' just in case there may be still a bit of life in it.I'm not hopeful but it's worth a go.

Jane...she/he has got quite a big tum. The ears look like they have gone or been removed very cleanly, its all very even!!

Good luck with your olive tree's :)

jude :-)

Is it possible that the squirrel was born without ears?

I suppose that's possible .The Squirrels we have had over the last few months have all their ears.Maybe this one was just born without them??OH will be gutted if he thinks there are going to be more of the little devils to dig up the lawn and flower beds :-S :-S.It certainly looked very porky lol and didn't move as swiftly as you would expect.
I'm keeping an eye open now.It was late afternoon yesterday that it was here.It managed to dig out the last big lump of fat from the coconut.New one up now :-D
Jude I will have to make sure with the new Olive tree that I look after it better next winter.The 'dead one' has now had a severe hair cut ,and looks rather pathetic :-|