Saturday

The morning after the stock up the day before.

I was fully expecting loads and loads and loads of birds. But it seems less than normal.
I didn't see anything on the nyger feeder. I think it's because it's on the starlings' tree.
Also only a lone tit has been seen on the fat candle.

So I went out and rearranged a bit. I moved the fat cake to a tree the other side of the garden hopefully to encourage the starlings over there. I moved the nyger feeder onto the tree outside the window. That now has a total of 6 different feeders/foods on it. One great tit didn't know where to settle. The nyger has had one or two visitors including the greenfinch, but mostly a coal tit.

I did see the goldcrest a few times and also, after a lot of poring over books and pics, I now know the brown bird I've been seeing is a dunnock as he had grey "flashes" over his eyes and rather a nice pic of him too.









Mrs chaffinch is still a scaredy cat, especially when the starling chases her off.



I'd read that you should pack a bit of fat into the tree nooks and crannies for tree creepers and the like, so I scraped the fat candle up a few brances and trunks. The starlings love it and are scrapping over it. It was also a nice treat for the very bird who I put it there for, the tree creeper who visited at dusk and went the other side of the branch when I approached him.




Sightings today
starlings
great tit
coal tit
blue tit
3 long tailed tits

dunnock
robin
mr and mrs chaffinch
mr and mrs blackbird
gold crest
gold finch

tree creeper
wood pigeons



Not seen a nuthatch today though. They are usual visitors, so I don't know where they are today.



I'm sure this is the same bird as I was wondering about yesterday and is definately mrs blackbird






There were a few bugs on the window and I tried a macro shot of them. The camera seemed to zoom in on different bits each time. Well cool if I say so myself

Flowers

Today's topic is a very special request from a moo-mate
Whilst playing with my camera I tried to take closeup macro shots of the few flowers I have in my garden. Half of them I don't know what they are. I don't "do" flowers. If something wants to grow in my garden, then it grows until "destruction day" when we go out and raze everything to the ground.


We seem to have a bluebell field on the lower level.

One of them bushes, can't remember what

This lovely orange flowered crocosmia just spreads everywhere. Beautiful, though (thanks Sheila)

Fuchsia (thanks G)

This may be a poppy?

A lovely plant next door


And a daisy, I think.

Lavendar bush? tree? It has really grown in the last few years and looks lovely.

So there's a few of the lovely flowers in my garden. If I ever work out what they are I'll come back and edit this post.

So I was in Tescos tonight and the receptionist at work phoned me to tell me my delivery has arrived. Since I drive a very small car it was a choice of food, or bird food. I chose food, so I may finish early tomorrow to set things up.

Tomorrows food is: potato peelings, a sprinkling of orange pepper and mushroom stems, bread, crumpets, a bit of beef fat, beef edge and all mushed together with gravy. Yum.

I am struggling with line spacings on this. It's doing my head in, bah!