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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Prior" data-source="post: 3144075" data-attributes="member: 66621">Our garden sounds a bit like Wari's in Finland, also c1000sq.metres with fruit trees, veg garden and clump of reeds around a tiny pond. But we're much higher up, on a  small plateau at 1,100metres asl. Looking north we can see Lac Léman 25kms away, so too far to see the  ducks, waders and birds using the main migration route down the Rhone. The land around is a mixture of summer grazing pasture and mixed woodland, south of us the land continues to rise, through pine and beech forests to the mountain called Sous-Dine, which is at 2,001m, that's how I get Alpine Chough on my Garden List each year :t: Total garden list is just short of Joanne's at 112. I was being a good son and making my weekly 'phone call to my Mum today when 3 new birds for the year appeared, hopefully she didn't notice my lack of attention to the call too much as I struggled to hold telephone and binoculars at the same time (though she did say 'are you still there?' twice which suggests she suspected  I was up to something!).28 Sparowhawk29 Hawfinch30 DunnockI'll have to ring her more often <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>