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Hiya....no not heard about that, will keep an eye on the news, thank you. Wow he's a whopper is'nt he:o)

jude:o)

Hi all

I missed out yesterday. It was so nice I spent most of it in the garden sorting out a few things and just enjoying it. Also OH was supposed to be in Copenhagen for the day but when he got to the airport he'd forgotten his passport. Silly sausage! So he came home and we had a chance to go out for lunch instead.

It would be nice to see your blog Jude. That will be another new thing to me as it's only recently that I've had the time to try these different aspects of the internet out. Glad Madoc's found a new friend.

Izzy - nothng to do with Cardiff but I was watching Coast the other night. They were in the Hebrides and they showed a Golden Eagle that was supposed to have an 8ft wingspan. They described it as a flying barn door. Obviously it doesn't look the same on TV but it must have been an impressive sight.

Hi Folks,

I've been reading everyones interesting posts.
Saw the heron again yesterday as it flew up from a neighbours fish pond - I wonder if they know ,as they are both at work. Must have noticed depleted fish stock.
Yesterday I noticed a kestrel in the area several times, .but am still waiting for the buzzards, and red kites to reappear.
Izzy...The collared doves in my garden are very tame. They now fly onto the feeders before I've finished filling them, and wait on my conservatory roof every morning for me to show my face.
Jude....Pleased Madoc has a new friend. I am delighted to say that Ianto
(Yanto) has had the all clear from the vet. The problem he had has cleared up with antibiotics. I was dreading him having surgery. He still has his eye problems, and I'm sure he is going deaf - although he still hears his food hitting the bowl.

Well back to work in the garden now - I bought some Agapanthus, so have to plant them.

Regards
Tec.

Tec
Is the first letter of your dog's name an I or an L? I know the pronunciation and it looks like an I, but then somebody the other day put an L so i am confused.

Hello Ann,
Your post gave me a giggle re dogs name.

It's a Welsh name Ianto with a capital ( I) not L

nearest pronounciation in English would sound like

Yanto, Jude in particular has problems with this I've noticed - sorry Jude lol

Hope you understand - Noswaith Dda i chi

Tec.

I actually thought it was an I as I have seen it as a name in a book and I also for some reason knew how it was pronounced, or thought I did, then I saw (was it Jude) put an L on it so started to wonder if I was wrong.

Jude ,the woodpecker I think is a green.It has a red head.I haven't seen it for a few days but have heard it.

Ann maybe you heard the pronunciation of Ianto's name on the recent Torchwood series where all the children started chanting at the same time. There was a character called Ianto who had a thing for Captain Jack. Glad your Ianto's feeling better now Tec, and still has his appetite.

Goodness me the crows and magpies are making a lot of noise in the tree outside.

Come on !!!!! Who has pinched all our birds? We have full bird feeders and only one single young robin in the garden, where have they all gone. I know we have a sparrow hawk in the area and the last time we had one our birds disappeared for a couple of months. Very eerie without them, a couple of weeks ago we had a large flock of sparrows.

Well we had one young goldfinch on the nyger seed lunch time, poor thing looked very lonely!

Hi Ann...know what you mean by lack of birds...the last 2 days the bread has gone stale, and we have a sparrow hawk too ! Only my little robin and a couple of blackbirds visit now. I did catch a magpie having a snooze on my wall which I took a photo of, might send it to Jude.
~~~~to all

Maggie

Hi all:o))
Back from Birmingham yesterday.

Oops oo eck l am sorry Yanto, hope he'll forgive me?? ...lol
Great news that he did'nt have to have surgery after all. Sorry to hear though that his eye's are still not too good bless him. Perhaps he has abit of selective hearing...lol...Madoc hears his dish being picked up if he's out the back. He's still scratching like mad, has new cream and had a bath today, vets again tomorrow or Tues.

Maggie....that sounds really cute, Magpies round here are quite nervous, can't imagine one nodding off...lol, yes please send a photo:o))

Whats happened to you Izzy, your posts have been deleted again!!

Jane....we have had a green woodpecker but not for a while, they are a lovely colour, our Lesser spotted (l think they are anyway) have'nt been around for some weeks now :o(

Quite alot of food left today Ann, but that could be due to people in and out of their gardens and the dogs too!

jude :o)

Hi Folks,
Like everyone, I too am wondering where the birds have gone. I've had just a few sparrows and chaffinches. The robin appeared yesterday briefly, and I did have a pair of greenfinches early today. The doves who seem to live in my garden are always around, and of course the perishing jackdaws - mobs of them - hooligans every one.

Don't worry about getting Ianto's name wrong Jude - my fault for giving him a Welsh name. Madoc is a good Welsh name too. I could have named him Rover, Bonzo, Wayne or Elvis I suppose lol. There is a black labrador bitch in the village called Felicity.

Well I'm off to cut my neighbours hedge, because she thinks it's mine - it's not, mines on the other side........oh well.

Regards
Tec.

We haven't even see the wood pigeons or the doves.

Jude, Issy deleted one of her posts by mistake. I think I saw yesterday that she has changed her board name to Barbra but not seen her since.

Hi all
Yesterday evening was quite busy around our garden. At dusk a skein of canada geese flew over in two v formations. Looked like they were on their way to land at Lyneham. They seem to have taken to flying over at around the same time for the past few evenings. After that whilst watering the pots we watched lots of bats flying over the river between the trees on either side. We figured there must be some about but it's the first time we've seen them. The owls were around again too. We could only hear them again, but they were somewhere very nearby. Today I've had a greenfinch in the bushes outside my kitchen window being quite noisy too.

Yeahh, the birds are back ! Where on earth have they been? I have had goldfinches and sparrows by the dozen, the collared doves have been cooing on the fence too. Very strange. The photo of my sleepy Magpie is on the photoblog thanks to Jude. Just wondered having another look if he is ill or something. Usually Magpies are so timid,and don't usually settle for long, but he just looks asleep..lol

Maggie

Hiya:o)

Maybe he is poorly, but if you click on the photo on the blog it looks like his eyes are closed. Has he been back, probably can't tell which is which though.
We have 6 magpies now and still about 6 or 7 c/doves, not seen w/pigeons apart from one on the fence the other day. Robin is still about and 15 plus sparrows.....oh and a few bluetits, grttits and coaltits. No woodpeckers for ages:o(( The other critter that we have'nt seen for a while are the squirrels:o(
The butterflies are slowly disapearing too, now the budlia blossom is dieing off.
Sooo if anyone wants to send me photo's l can definately get them on the blog....not tried to sort picasa out yet, not had time.

jude:o)

Has anyone seen Bellblair??? l was thinking of her the other day, then looking at the blog reminded me again that l have'nt seen her in ages!!

Bell....hope all is well??

jude xx

Well.... Our sparrows were back en mass this morning, loads of them, where have they been, it was pouring with rain and blowing a gale yet there they all were.

We had a tree surgeon in on Monday and one of the things he did was to take some weight out of our 2 apple trees before they break or split, so consequently a lot of windfalls. The ducks like those and the past few mornings we've had about half a dozen waddling up the garden for a feast - first taking into account which of our cats is out and about. If it's Buster they take no notice and carry on, if it's one of the other two they consider popping back later...

Of course whilst the butterflies are getting fewer, with the apple trees the wasps are more numerous.

My noisy greenfinch was in the bushes outside my son's bedroom window again this morning.