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I have had a strange bird in the garden today, too...... very small, about half the size of the blue tits, and a similar, but softer, colouring!

Oh..... and hubby got told off by a sparrow, it was sooooo funny!!

We have had a pair coming to feed from the fatballs on the arches for a couple of weeks now... but hubby has been out there today tidying up, lol.... and this sparrow was in my tree giving it rooty toot.... clearly cross, lol... so hubby moved out of the way, and down it swooped to feed! So funny.

I am hearing lots of different birds these mornings and evenings, too....

Love

Daff xxx

Hello all.
I am back from Dubai.I only saw 2 different types of birds there.Very squawky they were too.
This morning in our garden there were 2 strange birds,running very fast across the lawn.I think they may have been French Partridge,but not sure.

This morning there were a jackdaw and a young one on our pergola, and the adult was feeding the baby, but as soon as I got my camera they flew off.

LOL Ann,we never have the camera to hand at the right time.I get mine ,creep up behind the curtain and just as I'm about to click they B***** off

Hi Daff

I had two sizes of bluetit on the feeder today - male & female? adult & juvenile?

definitely both blueys, not a bluey and a great.

The Greenfinches seem to be back feeding again, I was a bit worried as I had not seen them and had read a piece in the paper about cleaning bird tables etc to keep them clear of the disease that is killing Greenfinches. Apparently if they are 'fluffed up' and lethargic (how do you tell a lethargic bird?) they could have the disease.

Jean....that Jackdaw is breeding early is'nt it??

Hello Julia:o)

Jane...bet you had a brill time, sorry l still have'nt got that photo on the blog, infact when l emailed to say l had lost it.....l found l had it downloaded 4 times already!!!! thing is since changing my browser thingy to Mozella there is a different way to download photo's, which means l can't find the beggers, when l do l can't work out what to do next, l'll get there in the end. l have photos from Jean aswell........and l was thinking of doing a photography (open uni) course.....lol lol lol

We had a gaint queen bee in the bathroom the other day, she was a beauty too. l collected her into a glass and let her out the front door, she was making a hell of a din!!

jude:o)

Yesterday was amazing.

We rarely get goldfinches here, just the odd one occassionally. Yesterday I looked into the garden, and was amazed to see a whole flock of goldfinches around the feeders. I counted 15, but I think there were more in a nearby magnolia tree.

I wonder if anyone else has seen this many all at once - all the more strange as we don't normally see them often.

Identified a small tit that visits lately as a Marsh Tit. Still plenty of greenfinches around, and I think one pair are nesting nearby.

Ianto is fine, still plodding along steadily.

Regards everyone,
Tec.

Tec, lovely to see you and pleased to hear that Ianto is doing OK. Wow, that was a large number of Goldfinches, I think the most I have seen is five. Did you have a camera handy?

Hello Ann,
Sadly I never seem to have a camera ready when I need one - but would have had to take that through the kitchen window, so don't know how that would turn out.
I will get my act together eventually.

Tec.

Taking photos through the window often depends on how clean the window is! Voice of experience!!

Hello Tec....nice to see you and pleased to hear Ianto is fine:o))
Madoc is too. The Lab pup next door has lost a claw and had a visit to the vets yesteday, he's now wearing Madocs bucket colar!!

Everyone.....think camera!!!
Jean....speak for yourself:o)) lol

Well my windows are not the cleanest but my photos through the window in the snow were fine.

l have one photo on the Blog....its Jane's spaniel puppy:o))

jude....off to sort the others...lol

Ann, I didnt tell you that my windows hadnt been cleaned for several months!!

Mine neither Jean!!!

Well that was an early bird!! Just sitting in the conservatory watching a robin who has been popping in and out of our garden recently. Watched him go into the wall garden near the door then realised he/she was feeding a young bird. The youngster was able to fly so not eve so young. Must have nested really early.

Had a heron actually on the garden the other day - no, no photo, what did you expect? I noticed it as I went into the lounge, but it noticed me as quickly and disappeared off before I had a chance. Thing is when we see them they are usually wading in the river, so we know they're big because you can see them from the house over our bank, and I had one do a flypast just outside the bedroom window as I opened the curtains one day, but seeing it standing on the garden I realised just how HUUUUUUGE they really are.

Yesterday, though, we had 3 unusually brave pheasants under the feeder on the patio. Two cats came and went and sat looking at them through the window and daughter's boyfriend who has a better camera and is a better photographer than me got some good shots of them through the window (clean windows I'll have you know since this seems to be the topic of recent debate lol, but not us that did them, window cleaner came last week) . A cock and two hens. Later I'll upload them to your blog Jude. One of the hens came up to the window right in front of one of the cats for a moment! Earlier in the day I'd seen two cock pheasants in the garden having a bit of a bust up. I think the one we saw later is probably the regular visitor and when we see hens with him there's usually two, so I think he was coming over all territorial about our garden being his.

Hi
I've just spent a few days in Edinburgh. The weather was absolutely glorious and the flat I had rented had a very nice walled garden with lots of shrubs.
In the course of a day I saw pidgeons,seagulls overhead. blue tits and long tailed tits, robins, wrens, blackbirds, gold finches, green finches,chaff finches and best of all a nuthatch on the feeder. I had never seen one of these before.
Needless to say the camera was safely tucked up in it's case!!!
Take care
Von

Evening All,
The last few weeks I have seen Canada Geese and some ducks flying over the house.Same time every day.The Moorhens we had seem to have gone back next door now.Maybe they are nesting by the small lake there.I can see them pootling around from my bedroom window.

Hi
The lack of aeroplanes today meant we were able to hear lots of birdsong.
Did anyone else notice this?
take care
Von