Every morning when we open the door we are greeted by a friendly sparrow welcoming in the day. He flies away, sometimes across to next door’s fence or up on to our roof, but we believe there may be a nest under one of the edge tiles on our porch. Not that we mind.
It’s comforting to hear him, and he sings practically all day.
On a few mornings coming back from walking the dog on my own, I have chatted to a crow that sits on our roof sometimes. He doesn’t say anything though and flies off when he’s good and ready.
We also have four pigeons now that visit our garden, chubby walking dinners if needs must, but a pleasing sight nonetheless.
Sitting here going through my reader, I could hear Mr Sparrow in the background then suddenly the song changed key.
I said to Hubby ‘That’s a different chirp’ and got up to investigate.
No pictures other than the internet for now, but we had four or five goldfinches on our fence posts and gate. In a flurry of wings, I think three flew into the garden, leaving two on the gate.
I got the camera, but the screen is up so I would have had to move it to one side, which would have scared them away anyway.
I am so pleased, as the little birds are finally coming into our garden which is a mass of colour thanks to our flower bed and home grown veg which is coming into its own now. We have seen a wren, blue tits, coal tits, our friendly supervising-while-Hubby-dug robin, a family of blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, and this past week a fieldfare, which like the blackbird, is a member of the thrush family.
Since the Ratilda episode, we haven’t put our feeder back up yet, but we’d disposed of the seed containers so would have to get some more now.
Wonderful.
Wow, that’s amazing. They know they are welcome.
I like to think so. I loved to watch the birds when we were in the cottage. We had yellowhammers too, and a family of tawny owls. We were so disappointed that we had this big garden but no birds, or bees for that matter, coming in. Hopefully word will get round now and we shall have some more.
I hope so. Do you have any wildflowers planted? I think some of them attract bees.
We bought a bumper box with ‘15,000’ mixed flowers in it. I was dubious about the number, but what’s coming up is a blaze of blue, red, pink, yellow and white and as one dies off, something else takes its place. The bees love them, plus we have flowers on our tomatoes and beans so it’s a buzz of activity outside just now. Wonderful!!
Must look fabulous! So nice to see things growing and thriving. Life in all its glory!
This was the latest picture of the flower bed.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/06/22/busy-day/
We’ve thinned it out a bit since and have some of the flowers indoors.
That is so beautiful! So different from the photos you took when you first moved in. Even the grass is greener and more lush now. You have accomplished a lot in a short period of time.
We will have been here two years come September. It’s so hard to believe. I took those shots when I’d just cut the grass when Hubby was in hospital.
Time sure passes quickly. Too quickly sometimes 😊
Yeah, I know.
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Lots of feathered friends!
Love ’em
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I happen to think birds add so much to one’s garden! I have a family in my Rose of Sharon tree, and the tree is right outside my den, so I can sit and listen to bird song of an early morning. They’re out there right now arguing about something. My neighbors to the east have a literal ‘Garden of Eden’ in their backyard, so the bird population is widely varied and I see all sorts of birds. Some come visit my yard, but it’s pretty weak tea comparatively. I don’t know what the birds are who nested in my tree, but some species of wren I think or the obsequious ‘little brown bird’. The ‘bad’ ones (I hate ’em, Huny would chase them, and the boys are learning to chase them too..) are the magpies (the bullies of the bird world, at least these are), the crows and the ravens, who are all biggish birds and bully the little song birds. They also tend to leave large unsavory deposits all over everything, I even found a large splotch on my car once. That bird had some wicked diarrhea apparently. *ulp* Thanks for sharing your lovely birds with us! 😀
I love the birds Melanie (lots of posts in my blog). We put nesting boxes up in our bungalow and had 15 fledglings from No 1 Tit Terrace as we called it. We’ve shooed off magpies and jays to protect the little ones, and here we thwarted a sparrowhawk as it swept up a blackbird. We gave chase and the blackbird got away. I find it wonderful that such a small creature can create such a loud and beautiful song.
Goldfinches! 😀 You are so lucky. 😀
They are so beautiful, and they song wonderful.
It’s sounds so wonderful! 💕
They are lovely little birds.
We have been hearing a different chirp too, but so far not tracked the visitor down…
A friend had a similar mystery, which turned out to be the battery low warning on his smoke alarm! Hope you can find the feathered visitor.
We will, but the eyesights not what it was…