Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
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Garden / Yard List 2015 (1 Viewer)
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Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
I wish you'd slow down a bit H2 - or take a holiday somewhere warm . It's a week since I saw anything new, partly because I got off to a flyer, but perhaps also because the snow is lying 18inches deep, sub zero every day with fog for the last 4 days(it's actually the limit of the cloud, sometimes I glimpse a watery sun but that's about it). So everything is white, which helped early this morning as there was no electricity, we just opened the shutters and the snow illuminated the interior (a bit).
This morning I had the first Nuthatch to actually come into the garden this winter, otherwise stacks of Brambling and Chaffinches chomping through the seed supply, about 25 of each species. Coal Tit unusually rare in the garden this winter, though there are plenty nearby in the forest, already pairing up it seems. I assume that we don't have so many 'foreign' Coal Tits from further north this winter
. It's a week since I saw anything new, partly because I got off to a flyer, but perhaps also because the snow is lying 18inches deep, sub zero every day with fog for the last 4 days(it's actually the limit of the cloud, sometimes I glimpse a watery sun but that's about it). So everything is white, which helped early this morning as there was no electricity, we just opened the shutters and the snow illuminated the interior (a bit).This morning I had the first Nuthatch to actually come into the garden this winter, otherwise stacks of Brambling and Chaffinches chomping through the seed supply, about 25 of each species. Coal Tit unusually rare in the garden this winter, though there are plenty nearby in the forest, already pairing up it seems. I assume that we don't have so many 'foreign' Coal Tits from further north this winter
Warixenjalka
Birdwitcher
# 14. Coal Tit
Always so glad to see at my feeder. But very rare visitor (or then my eyesight has deteriorated :eek!. I wouldn't be sorry even though it might be more frequently...
Always so glad to see at my feeder. But very rare visitor (or then my eyesight has deteriorated :eek!
. I wouldn't be sorry even though it might be more frequently...
dantheman
Bah humbug
That'll be fun - presumably not just for one superlative garden listing experience?!
Interestingly, that's also what the Scottish giant exclaimed, injuring himself upon visiting his less vertiginous neighbours.
halftwo
Wird Batcher
That'll be fun - presumably not just for one superlative garden listing experience?!
Interestingly, that's also what the Scottish giant exclaimed, injuring himself upon visiting his less vertiginous neighbours.
?!
dantheman
Bah humbug
'Eck, wee door'
halftwo
Wird Batcher
oh dear, Dan!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
No new birds to report, although did photograph Song Thrush on a roof the other day.
Please be careful Dan, don't want you falling off (personally I always keep my feet on the ground when photographing birds)
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Tee hee, on a lot of the birding blogs I see sentences like 'saw a Blackbird on the way to the shops this morning'. Being an old pedantic (like many on Birdforum!) I feel like reacting 'So, was it going to buy some milk and a newspaper?'
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Excellent, Tangy Cheese flavour too, a Gull with taste!
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Ha ha, all I can say is that the shop owners are really 'gullible', leaving their door open all the time
No thaw here yet (see this morning's view of the main bird feeding area), I bet Jos and Wari in Estonia and Finland have got more snow than me though!
