With a female Sparrowhawk making repeated visits to the garden feeders this morning the other birds are understandably looking nervous. Completely oblivious to this are small group of Siskins who have just arrived. I have noticed in the past that they don’t get the jitters the same way as the other birds. They seem quite… Read More A nervous place
…again and again! Snow covered ground makes it difficult (once again) for the birds to find the food on the ground. As a result, the hanging feeders and bird table have become a bit over crowded to say the least. Chatters of frantic activity increase in volume with the increase in birds arriving at them.… Read More Snow brings them in…
First off, I should stress I am definitely no technical guru. However, I do work with the technology that brings the images from my camera nestbox to the videos you see on my blog. I have been quite comfortable with this. There are many blogs and websites that show nestbox (nestcam) footage which will not… Read More Tech Tuesday: Nestbox to video
As daylight hours grow by the day, despite the cold temps we may have, its time for nesting birds to search out nestboxes in our gardens. Perhaps you may already have seen activity like John at Midmarsh Jottings who also has cameras in two nestboxes plus one outside too see here. Not many people have… Read More Viewing available now
Mallards on an almost completely frozen village pond got an unexpected treat yesterday evening. Out on a study break/run in the car with my daughter we found the planned location for our trip (a walled garden centre) closed by the time we got there.A back-up plan of a container of the homemade garden bird mix… Read More Lucky ducks
Today Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day celebrates not only the flowering plants in many, many gardens across the Blogisphere but it also its 3rd Blogiversary! I’d like to send warm Congratulations to Carol over at May Dreams Gardens who came up with this idea and has continued to generously host it every month.Just a little something… Read More GBBD… Congrats Carol!
Now wouldn’t that be unusual? Last Saturday, towards the end of the day we did actually see this… although not in my garden! We were at SWT Reserve Loch of the Lowes sitting inside with coffees/hot choc watching through the observation window out to their feeder area.Being late in getting there we knew we wouldn’t… Read More Treecreeper on peanut feeder
…we’re off to the North American Prairie at Cambo, Scotland. Whoa! Sorry, could resist the title 🙂 I also couldn’t resist the trip to see this prairie last September as soon as I heard about it.Until then I had only associated Cambo with snowdrops and thoroughly enjoyed not just one but two visits to see… Read More Time to saddle up…
Continuing with my Cambo weekend, let’s head next to the cut flower area (see map REF 7). Verbascum nigrum ‘Sixteen Candles’ was seen here back in September 2009 with its slender yellow branching spike. This area was on the slope towards the top of this walled garden area. Wandering along meandering plant lined paths towards… Read More The cut flower area
…but not as you expect Jim! LOL… I’m guessing I’m not the only Blogger that plays on words for post titles. Plant lovers… this one’s for you! For everyone else, it’s Friday night… scroll past the photos and enjoy the video. Thanks OH, that’s just what I was thinking of!Yep… all eyes at the moment… Read More It’s crocus folks…