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Any Of You Fancy A Spotting A Few Birds

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Originally posted by Kathy@Feb 8 2007, 10:08 AM
Mark, lots of fat balls and peanuts already out and some chips that were left over from last nights dinner. We have a pheasant that turns up most days just for 20 mins or so to have his lunch. Keeping the snow off of the tables is quite a job this morning but the birds seem fairly happy at my efforts!
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You are a very nature loving girl Kathy :D The world needs more of your kind. :D

I will shortly be collecting all the amphibians on some of the sites we work, where we have to drain of wetlands etc, I give them to our local gardeners who have amphibian ponds and they live a long and happy life, after all they are a friend of the gardener. :D :D :D
 
Originally posted by krizon@Feb 8 2007, 01:03 AM
Lovely to arrive at Lingfield to a little family of chaffinches busily nibbling at acorns, etc. They went on to sing beautifully in the afternoon.
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Brilliant Krizon Brilliant :D :D :D

I gave a sausage to 2 magpies in our yard this morning and watched them play tug of war, they ended up with half each, what I saw this morning and your post really warms my heart. :rolleyes: :D :lol:
 
Cheers, Mark. My colleagues didn't know what they were at first, so I told them their markings meant they were chaffs - but, I said, the one on the right in the Burberry check cap is actually a chavinch! (Oh, how they laughed!)

Mark, how are all of your very beautiful boidies? I well recall your super photos of them over on FF last year. Some outstandingly gorgeous birds there. Have the love birds raised any babies?
 
The cold weather has meant that my garden is rather busy this morning. The yellowhammers have returned after a spell in exile, two boys and a girl, the boys have such bright yellow heads. I've also got four blackbirds, one without a tail although it doesn't seem to bother him. Spring must be on its way though as the collared doves were having a bit bonk on the pergola after feeding.
 
Loads of activity in my garden, too in the last few days. Blackbirds, a thrush, a wren and more tit's than it is possible to keep up with. Lots of magpies and pigeons which scare the smaller birds away, so I accidently let Barney out after the big birds have had their fill. :) There are about 20 regular tits in the garden and a family of the fattest robins you have ever seen. I am convinced they are eating the fat balls.... whole :blink:
 
Originally posted by krizon@Feb 9 2007, 11:57 AM
Cheers, Mark. My colleagues didn't know what they were at first, so I told them their markings meant they were chaffs - but, I said, the one on the right in the Burberry check cap is actually a chavinch! (Oh, how they laughed!)

Mark, how are all of your very beautiful boidies? I well recall your super photos of them over on FF last year. Some outstandingly gorgeous birds there. Have the love birds raised any babies?
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Our birds are in brilliant condition Krizon (Touch Wood) they are companoin birds we do not breed them.
I told a girl at the local pharmacy that we had 2 cockatiels, she said Oh you breed them then, I said I have two cocks :lol: she began to blush, only being aged about 17, I said you silly girl, I mean two cock birds. :D

I have a funny story of the man with 2 cocks but will save that till I have more time. :P
 
Kathy, Barney has asked me to request you to stop referring to balls, fat or otherwise. Please, a little diplomacy around the wee feller!
 
Plenty of bird activity in my gaff today - just let out a robin who had managed to get in through the window. Well, just managed it at least - the dopey thing was flying round and round in sheer panic while I was trying to locate where the keys for the window locks were hidden.
 
It's now much colder and blowing a gale but out walking the mutts this morning, it was almost springlike for a bit and down by the river I spotted a pair of moorhens, a heron, quite a few pheasants, a pair of duck on the little pond by the wood's edge and the usual suspects such as crows, magpies and buzzards.

In the mare's yard, the birds are already staking their claims as to where they want to build their nests and it's positively noisy there first thing!

But the funniest moment of the day was first thing. After feeding the mares, the next on the list is Boop the cat - she gets fed in the feed room. I thought I'd heard a bit of noise in there as I passed the door but didn't stop to check it out. Cat is always waiting for her grub as I open the door but, strangely, no sign of cat. I look around, still no cat. Right by the door is a black dustbin for any rubbish and as I look down, a white paw shoots out of it, and the lid rises about 3" as Boop makes another effort to escape.

The lid hadn't been on properly, she's jumped on the bin to get to her food area, fallen in and the lid had flipped back neatly in place. I can't stop laughing, because she's mad as a snake and on lifting the lid to let her out, she's puffed herself up in a right bait and does not take kindly to be laughed at.....
 
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