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Author Topic: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature  (Read 1169242 times)

jaypo

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5880 on: February 06, 2022, 07:55:37 PM »

There's no gaps ANYWHERE!! It was the back of the cupboards last time,so OH lined them all,my little chihuahua will get it if it comes into the house but hopefully when it realises it can't get in it will toddle off
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5881 on: February 06, 2022, 08:38:04 PM »

MayB it was there B4 the gaps were sealed  :whist:
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5882 on: February 07, 2022, 12:51:07 PM »

Once my daughter vacuumed up a mouse/moose alive. I don’t know who was the most shocked! It had run in her house during harvest time. She set it free. Hope it didn’t suffer from dust allergies!

The blackbirds here are persistent. They will follow you round waiting for food. We had our drive relaid and they followed the workmen to their delight. They would swoop down onto the disturbed earth.
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5883 on: February 07, 2022, 12:54:37 PM »

It's all hpappening in our garden  8). Lots of male blackbirds around.  A wren plus blue tits.  Pied wagtails looking for meal worms. 

Any sigh of that moose jaypo?  Ju Ju  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5884 on: February 07, 2022, 01:04:12 PM »

Yesterday we saw daffs in full flower in Buckinghamshire.   :-*
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jaypo

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5885 on: February 07, 2022, 01:14:33 PM »

Hahaha my moose has gone,well,haven't heard it again at least,no no,we haven't sealed it in,it was a year or so ago we last had them.
Oh nooooooo Juju, I would've fainted if I did that  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5886 on: February 09, 2022, 10:58:03 AM »

First black lambs seen this morning, in a pile on the grass whilst Mummies grazed.  Low to the ground with the sunshine on their wool, what's not to like  :-*. Need to find out which breed .........

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5887 on: February 09, 2022, 03:03:44 PM »

1st April was it  ::)

I do remember that sheep were mated to different types of rams, which worked OK in the College environment; however, lambing in the bleak Winter on a windy black night was a different matter.  That rams threw lambs too large for the ewes  :-\  :'( which cost farmers at the time a lot of money  >:(

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5888 on: February 10, 2022, 04:04:39 PM »

Crows tugging twigs in the big oak tree today, must be nesting time  :)

Its lovely to see so many green shoots appearing around the garden and the first few camelia flowers are fully open, a bit later this year some times they start to open Christmas time.
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5889 on: February 12, 2022, 02:01:12 PM »

An attractive Brambling on the sunflower heart feeder mid-morning  :-*
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5890 on: February 12, 2022, 02:34:03 PM »

Lovely snowdrops all along the fence here.
Was happy to see lots of sparrows on the new feeders I put out but they seem to have gone and blue tits have replaced them,is there a dominant species? Would the blue tits scare off the sparrows?
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5891 on: February 14, 2022, 11:23:38 AM »

Sometimes there is a dominant species, other times it is due to more appropriate wild food appearing.  Sparrows love to nip the tops of crocii, especially the yellow ones  >:(

Blue tits may be a bit to fluttery for sparrows to stay around.  Sparrows here tend to ground feed the scraps!
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5892 on: February 14, 2022, 03:27:39 PM »

We get literally no sparrows at this house,so it was nice to see a tree full of them in Scotland  :)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5893 on: February 24, 2022, 08:14:44 PM »

Two frogs joined together last night: 1st lump of spawn this. morning  :bouncing:
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #5894 on: March 08, 2022, 07:10:41 PM »

3 small healthy looking hedgehog poos in the garden today  8)
Cowslips opening  :-*
Robins and wrens have paired, flying around the patio/ponds together  8)


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