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Post by sweetpea on Nov 20, 2018 14:07:21 GMT
These mealworms are expensive compared to the other stuff. I used to breed mealworms in a biscuit tin in the greenhouse and one day a frog found it and scoffed most of them  |
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Post by SueA on Jan 2, 2019 9:27:29 GMT
That reminds me sweetpea of when I was little & my older half brother used to go fishing & leave things at our house when he visited (once it wash a fish in the bath!). He left a biscuit tin of maggots in our lean-to until mum opened it one day & released a plague of bluebottles!  We had an unusual garden visitor yesterday - a grey wagtail, not seen one of those in the garden before, we did have a pied wagtail last year though. I managed to snatch a quick pic. although it's not in focus, it jumped forward just as I took it & then flew off, very pretty little thing.  |
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Post by Cherry on Jan 2, 2019 10:22:37 GMT
Yes, it is pretty SueA. I miss the birds very much. There are tall trees opposite and a huge historic graveyard with a walk through it, but they are not trees in my own yard as I had at Southery. |
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Post by johnjess on Jan 2, 2019 12:44:42 GMT
 Found this guy having lunch in my garden a couple of weeks ago. I have never seen one as close to our house as this before! |
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Post by sweetpea on Jan 2, 2019 14:23:17 GMT
I quite like this bird as handy for the weather forecast: click to enlarge  |
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Post by SueA on Jan 3, 2019 8:55:11 GMT
Naughty sweetpea, she wasn't in 'your garden' either (you wish!) |
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Post by roofgardener on Jan 3, 2019 13:37:12 GMT
I've got an owl on my roof I can hear it tweeting at night, and early in the mornings. I don't have a photograph of it however. |
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Post by SueA on Jan 3, 2019 15:22:05 GMT
Did you bring your two with you to the new garden roofgardener, the one on the roof might be looking for a mate!  |
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Post by roofgardener on Jan 4, 2019 10:55:27 GMT
Did you bring your two with you to the new garden roofgardener, the one on the roof might be looking for a mate! Hmm.. good point SueA. Owliver and Bronwyn are roosting in my airing cupboard at the moment ? |
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Post by SueA on Feb 8, 2019 8:49:59 GMT
Nothing remarkable I know but we had a chaffinch in our garden yesterday, must have got blown in from wherever they normally go around here as we very rarely get them in our garden.  |
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Post by Cherry on Feb 8, 2019 10:22:33 GMT
All the birds are remarkable SueA. You always take great pictures of them. |
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Post by Rosie on Feb 8, 2019 10:49:17 GMT
I was amazed to see a Fieldfare in our garden a couple of days ago, never had one here before. It was fair getting stuck into some apples we had put out.  |
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Post by Rosie on Feb 8, 2019 10:50:19 GMT
Nothing remarkable I know but we had a chaffinch in our garden yesterday, must have got blown in from wherever they normally go around here as we very rarely get them in our garden. We get a lot of Chaffinches in our garden, they are very argumentative wee souls, great picture SueA |
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Post by SueA on Feb 9, 2019 8:23:16 GMT
That's a lovely pic. of your fieldfare Rosie , we've never had one in our garden either although I have seen them up the moss nearby. |
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Post by roofgardener on Feb 11, 2019 10:59:26 GMT
Hmm.. I need some help identifying a bird.
I have a huge flock of them (at least 20) in a garden a few houses down the road from mine. They will suddenly flock out, cross the road, and fly down an alleyway on the opposite side. Later on, they flock back again.
They don't make much noise (e.g. no cheeping etc), or if they DO cheep, they don't seem to do it in flight.
They are a uniform brown colour, with no colour splashes anywhere.
They look to be smaller - and chunkier - than a starling, but bigger than a tit or redbreast.
They've been here ever since I moved in .. around 24th November ?
Any thoughts ?
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