Although we haven’t really got anything to invite them in yet, I am looking forward to watching the birds visit our garden. Hubby’s Christmas present is up at the back window now, but I can’t see any when they visit.
I got so much pleasure in the cottage watching blackbirds raise their young, see the robins squabbling over territorial rights, Portly and Breast doing their thing and surprisingly not breaking any boughs, the family of tawny owls that sat in the silver birch tree one evening, and even a duck came and rested under our bush of whateveritwas (we never knew) under the apple tree.
I took part in the RSPB garden watch for several years, and although I sat in the marina car park in January 2015 and got some surprising results, I didn’t participate thereafter.
This is a list of birds we have seen in our garden so far (front and back).
Blackbird (male and female)
Robin
Kestrel
Wood Pigeons
Coal Tits
Wagtails
Goldfinch
Starlings (a lot!)
Mallard duck (male and female but not together)
Crow
Although not an actual ‘Gardening’ post, it does relate to the garden!
We have lots of Canada Geese (giant ducks with attitude) here. Want some?
Na. We’ve got about 50 in the park down the road thanks!
We also have the swallows arriving, so dare we take that as a sign of summer?
Yeh ………….. go for it! Live dangerously!
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing.
But that’s absurd, the wing is on the bird.
Or so I’ve heard.
(Attributed to Ogden Nash, publicized by Spike Milligan)
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Ah, dear Spike, 🙂
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Oh, keep us informed of the bird feeder happenings! I have a camera to put out at ours this year, so I can keep an eye on them even when I’m not there. Of course, I have to actually take the time to put the camera out before I can do this, so who knows when this will happen.
Look out for my next post Sarah, you’ll be ‘charmed’,