This morning our visiting Blue Tit pair continued to pop in and out of our Camera Nestbox. Both were seen removing wood shavings again. I would hear them through the speakers but they didn’t always appear inside the Nestbox. I set up my camera on a tripod outside to see what they were up to.… Read More Blue Tit pair outside Nestbox
My garden is at the end of a short street. It is small but not quite as small as many of my neighbour’s gardens as it is tucked in one of the corners. My garden is ‘L’ shaped following two sides of my house and diagonally out to a corner. It has changed many times… Read More Arbours and Pergolas – Part 1
We have had a female Blue Tit roosting in our Camera Nestbox for a couple of months now. Occasionally she has been seen visiting the box during the day – well I am assuming it is the same bird anyway. She has also been heard calling from the entrance – I guess to her mate.… Read More Blue Tit pair in Nestbox again
I would like to wish all my visitors a very Happy New Year. I wonder what this year will have in store for us all. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that having a garden enriches our lives in so many ways. I hope that as I and others write, photograph and video… Read More Happy New Year!
My blog contains a mixture of posts on garden plants, visiting birds and wildlife. I have resisted the temptation to write separate blogs. However, I fully understand that new readers to my blog may browse and miss posts that may be of interest. If you are browsing I hope the lists below will help given… Read More CONTENTS – December 2007
This is a busy time of the year for family and friends but I have been very surprised at quite how busy the bird feeders have been in my garden! It hasn’t been too cold and we haven’t had snow or hard frosts. However the numbers of visiting finches really have increased greatly especially with… Read More Busy, busy
This morning is the third morning in a row that I have awoken to a seriously hard frost covering my entire garden. So my gardening once again has stopped for the moment. It is 8am as I begin this post and here in my garden in Scotland the day is just beginning – it is… Read More Magical winter moments
After my last post it may have seemed like my gardening year was over but today I spent a very enjoyable few hours out in my garden. What about our hard frost? Well, the next night we had no frost at all in my garden and today it was really quite pleasant. We even had… Read More A good gardening day!
The temperature has now dropped in my garden and this morning at 6.15am the car temp gauge read minus 7 deg C. It never warmed much above 2.5 deg C during the day and as you might guess I did have quite a covering of frost in my garden. It still wasn’t what I would… Read More Finally frosty
If you have been following my diary you will know that I had a grey squirrel visit my garden and after buying a squirrel feeder I reconsidered using it. During the time I was considering this I emailed a column (Craigie) of a local Newspaper (The Courier) asking if any readers had advice or experience… Read More Grey tree rat eats birds eggs