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I love Kynance Cove Ann.I remember spending some lovely days there as a child .Somewhere I have a photo of me and my Sister on the cliff top there and both of us sucking a stick of rock :-D
One day when we were there there was a terrible tragedy.A young boy playing football on the grass above the beach slid when chasing the ball and went right over the edge and died. :-(I think I was about 10 at the time.

Now a good Pasty you just can't beat :-D.I had one yesterday with OH when we went to Hatfield Living Crafts Fair.It was made in Bodmin and delicious.I bought some home with me :-D.I hadn't realised you were in Cornwall now.Must have missed you saying that.

Maryanna I always think it is quite amazing to see the Birds chasing off the Buzzards and Kites.When you think of the difference in size!!.The big ones never fight back do they.
It has been a very windy day here too but so mild.

Maryanna it was 30mph wind today with gusts of 50mph. Really blowy at Kynance, we didn't go far. Stopped in Lizard to buy lunch...... Pasties from Ann's pasty shop, the best in Cornwall!,, lovely but eaten in the car away from gulls. :-D :-D :-D :-D while eating lunch a Skylark landed on top of the wall in front of the car.

The Buzzards have been very much in evidence recently, still only seem to be four of them at the moment.

There was a ruckus coming from the Rookery and several Rooks wre mobbing one of the Buzzards. Saw him off and soon the four Buzzards were circling round and round again.

The sparrows, I would hate to do a head count now, there are so many if them, were all sitting in the Thugs' Blackthorn shouting at me to hurry up and eat my breakfast as they wanted to get at the crusts of toast I had thrown on the patio.

When I went inside they demolished the crusts in about five minutes flat.

Nice enough to sit outside but very blowy.

Watch out for the Herring Gulls Ann, they will be after your chips !!!!

M.

That's odd, one of the Dopey Doves flew into our patio door earlier.

Luckily, because they are so dopey, they don't fly very fast and by the time I got downstairs he was just sitting there looking even more dopey than ever, then flew off.

Tried to spend as much time as I could in the garden between the rain.

M.

And we know what he had on his mind :-D

I am often hearing a thump on the Patio door or a window ,and then dread going outside wondering if there is either a very stunned bird or one with a broken neck lying on the ground.
I hope Mrs Blackbird gave Mr Blackbird a thick ear Pammy for making her go headfirst into the window
:-D

Mrs Blackbird just flew into the glass of our sliding doors twice. It was only after the second time that I realised that Mr Blackbird was chasing her.
If she didn't have a headache before I think she must have one now!

Oh what a horrible wet day .All the birds are looking very bedraggled and tatty :-S
Tomorrow we are going to Hatfield House for a Arts and Craft Exhibition.I think it could be very muddy underfoot !!

Kandj has asked me again to thank everyone for continuing thoughts,and prayers during this very difficult time. <3 to Kandj

I have still only seen the one Swift.There has to be more than the one.I remember last year they would all gather on our roof pecking at the tiles.I expect there were insects up there.

This morning I have had to move the Peanut ball away from the house.There were 2 Rooks and a Magpie around it :-S,and it is just under the bedroom window.So it is now hanging off a tree branch down the bottom of the garden.No doubt the Squirrels will soon find it .I just hope the little birds do.

Our swifts seemed to arrive in numbers yesterday. Usually it is in the last couple of days of April that they appear.

A week or so ago I was worried that I hadn't seen any baby starlings. I needn't have - they are all over the place now.

It is now the turn of the Wood Pigeons to take over the nest, the Collared Doves having recently been empty nesters, their offspring having flown the nest, so to speak.

I am not sure who it is that makes all the mess underneath, I think it is the dozy Doves. I picked up loads of sticks a few weeks back, there don't seem to be any there now.

We have a new generation of Sparrows and the Swift population both in Surrey and Somerset seems to have increased in the last week or so. My son has House Martins flying round his garden.

On the minus side, the Magpies appear to have been busy once again this year and the adults and young take great delight in terrorising the smaller birds.

Am getting through bird food at a rate of knots but although they all seem to like the new bird table I have yet to see anyone on the fancy white iron feeder my daughter gave me for Mothers Day.

M.

I love the Goldfinches.We had a couple here the other day pulling out the coconut matting from the window box .But I haven't seen them since.Fingers crossed Vera you get more visiting.
it has been a Squirrel day here.Both the male and the female (at different times).My OH always chases them away if he sees them .So I didn't tell him when they were feeding on the nuts :-D
The Magpies are getting a bit annoying now.Squawking and screeching and trying to disturb nests :-S

Lovely Vera, well done.

Feeling very chuffed. Sitting in the conservatory having a lunch time sandwich I watched a goldfinch fly in and have some nyger seeds. They really are pretty birds. Hopefully he'll be back now that he has found us.

The sparrows here are very hungry and active so I think they are feeding young. We were out to a garden centre today and saw a buzzard flying overhead, there certainly seem to be more of them around these days :-)

Have been to the Isle of Wight for a couple of days and saw several buzzards flying, though I didn't see any perched.

Got back home and found the suet cake and the fat balls practically gone and the seed feeder empty, though the peanuts don't seem to be going down much.

The starlings have been out in force again today and I think they are the ones eating most of the food, though I have seen a blue tit and a great tit on the fat balls a couple of times.. I have also discovered that I didn't imagine the nyger seeds are going down but sadly I don't seem to have tempted the goldfinches in. It's the sparrows. When they have picked out all the seeds they fancy from the seed feeder, they move on to the nyger seeds. I spent a good few minutes watching a couple of them through the window today.

Still thinking of Kandj and her OH and hoping things are improving for them.

Lovely to see the deer Graham, not so sure about the rat :-(

I saw a young deer this morning. It was lying in the grass in the middle of a field. But the grass was very short (it still hasn't grown back fully since the flood earlier in the year). So I saw it poking it's head up. It was probably looking for its mum. The doe usually go off to feed themselves away from their young so as not to draw attention to them. :-)

Shortly after that I saw a rat. It was very slow. I think it was on its way out. :-(

I have been fascinated watching the Squirrel on the Peanut ball getting rid of all the skin on the nuts before eating them.The ground underneath is like a carpet of discarded skins :-S.It has been a busy day bird wise.Lots flying here and there with beaks full of 'stuff'.One of my Robins on the window feeder filled its beak with pellets before taking off.It looked quite tatty so I guess it must be feeding babies.

So here we are again at the end of the B/H weekend and just a few weeks before the next one :-D

Still thinking of Kandj and hoping her OH is improving <3

Don't see them here in the garden but OH sees them over the golf club five minutes away :-)