The close views of Salmon leaping promised at Buchanty Spout definitely didn’t disappoint. The heavy rainfall of the day before swelling the river added to the spectacle. The sun came out lighting up these beautiful fish as they leapt in the air. It was reported that hundreds were seen this day, October 14th 2012. I… Read More Salmon Leaping at Buchanty Spout
So… I remembered to get few garden views (bonus with early morning sunshine) to join Helen and other Bloggers with an end of the month view or two from my garden. It’s always tricky to decide which way to do this – do you choose close-up captures or the long views where you don’t get… Read More End of Month View FEB13
Let the prequels begin 😉 My garden saw foliage chosen over flowers, straight lines over curves, shrubs over perennials and little attention to birds, birds, bees, butterflies or hedgehogs. Basic garden history: We inherited an ‘L’ shaped back garden space ideal for a young family growing up and for one very keen gardener to make… Read More The garden blog prequel
Let the questions begin 😉 Mine are on the Meconopsis, long grass, a plant ID, a Buddleja suggestion and New Zealand flatworms. Can you help here? I’d like to welcome answers via comments on this post or by email. Thank-you to anyone that gets back to me 🙂 Before I begin I’d like to say… Read More Garden Bloggers’ Questions FEB13
What fun it was when many bloggers set sail with me to a Desert Island back in the cold days of January 2009. Thanks for the reminder, Karen 🙂 Our challenge was to bring just three plants with us. After some email invitations and bloggers kindly spreading the word it really was a fun packed… Read More Blogger Invitations, Irritations & Days
‘unless something exciting visits the garden’ I said last time in relation to having a break from nature posts. Well, I’d say a Yellowhammer foraging for food right under my window just a metre away was an exciting sighting 😉 We had a return to snow and cold temps overnight and this brought large groups… Read More A Yellowhammer in the garden!
What fun it has been for the last six years observing the behaviour of visiting birds to my garden. Observational learning is what I have been doing but in my case the reward has been in seeing the variety of bird species arriving in my garden. I guess it’s quite apt that I take a… Read More The Brambling and the peanut feeder
Before we get to the (exciting late entry) results from the shirls gardenwatch, Perthshire Garden let’s take a look at who opted out during my one hour count. The now regular female Great Spotted Woodpecker chose to pop by early morning missing out on her chance to be included. The pre count regular small group… Read More 2013 RSPB Birdwatch Results
Taking the full garden tour last weekend was a male Pheasant, will he return to be counted this weekend? LOL… not likely, the birds usually take a garden break during my window break to record what bird species and how many can be seen at any one time during an hour, in my garden. Living… Read More Snowy shelter and garden visitors
Reviewing products is new to me, but as this one comes down to spending money from the household budget versus garden birds getting extra food from feeders in our gardens to survive a cold night in winter… I have taken on this task seriously! Okay… I had fun too 😉 My first thoughts went to…… Read More RSPB TABLE MIX EXTRA trial results