The daffodils in my garden are still giving a good show of colour but soon they will fade away. Other fancier varieties and the paper whites are now coming into flower and the fritillaries won’t be far behind. We had sleet and snow over the weekend so I didn’t get as much gardening done as… Read More Moving on…
It probably hasn’t gone unnoticed that I haven’t been chatting about my plants recently. Yes, I have definitely been doing a garden watch but I now need to get out into the garden and get some seasonal jobs done! It has definitely been a case of too much mouse and not enough trowel in my… Read More Too much mouse and not enough trowel
This evening at 5.30pm I looked in on my camera Nestbox to see if we might have anyone roosting but I didn’t really expect to see anything. Boy, was I in for a surprise! On the floor of my camera Nestbox there is a scattering of moss like material although I will need sunlight tomorrow… Read More What have we here?
So many visitors in one small garden – I just cannot believe it! I wonder if anyone can help me now with the ID for the latest new bird visiting. The photo below was taken late afternoon in my garden. This bird does look slightly familiar. Okay, perhaps I should help out… This bird is… Read More Spot the birdie 2
It’s April the first and am I having a joke here? Nope… what you are about to see is entirely true and you have my assurance that no animals were harmed during the making of this film! Okay what is this about? Well…. a few months back we had a certain visitor to our garden. A… Read More The Director’s Cut
I am guessing that there are a few people interested in what is going on with the blue tit pair visiting the nestboxes in my garden. However, what I would really like to know is who finally makes the decision on which Nestbox to use – the male or the female? Yep… most would probably… Read More Who makes the decisions?
Over the weekend I’ve had a bit of a challenge trying to ID a visiting bird to my garden. Wow… the pale yellow colouring of this bird was really noticed in the flock of birds descending on the feeders on Saturday afternoon. It was raining quite hard at the time and raindrops were all over… Read More Spot the birdie
A Google search came up with a staggering 21,300,000 results on a web search and 2,020,000 on a UK search. Yep… so I’ll ask the question again. Where do you find garden blogs? We all know a general search like this will take considerable time browsing to even get you close to what you are… Read More Where do you find garden blogs?
For anyone who took part with the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch in January 2008 the results are now out. Below I have listed the top ten with comparison figures for 2007. You can see my top ten visiting garden birds here. Top 10 Garden Birds 20081. HOUSE SPARROW with an average of 3.6 per garden(2007… Read More Top 10 UK Garden Birds 2008
Today I have posted on two nestboxes in my garden, but by the far the most interesting in my garden is another one that has a camera in it. So what is happening there? I don’t want this mess, video 0:12 with background music, try 480p quality. Okay, as you can see this box is… Read More Camera Nestbox update