So lets have a quick catch up.
The garden has lots of baby birds, sparrows and starlings especially, a few blue tits, several blackbirds and a couple of goldfinches. No robin babies yet but they always seem to be the last to appear. The adult robins are in the garden taking food away so there are young ones somewhere close by.
Robin was very pleased to see the meal worms.
So pleased he jumped for joy.
Squirrel came down to the bird table, he just could not decide what to have to eat at first! He picked and tasted, then he decided.
Shall I have an apricot? No.
Shall I have a grape? Yes I think I'll have a grape.
What? This is my grape, you get your own!
Squirrel disappeared along the fence and up the tree to eat his grape.
Some of the birds are still collecting nesting material. Whether it is for new nests or just for patching up the old ones I am not sure. I have seen a female blackbird rushing about with a beak full of twigs and a dunnock with a beak full of feathers.
That is either a very handsome moustache or some nesting material.
We had a little problem appeared in the garden, it came from under the neighbours fence.
The Little Problem.
The rat came into our garden grabbed some food and ran back under the fence.
We didn't want this to become a big problem so Tony put out a rat trap.
The next day Tony went to check the trap, we knew there was something inside as the door had dropped. As we got closer we could see it was not a rat, it was in fact...
A Blackbird
Who was totally disgusted with us. He flew straight out of the trap shouting and carrying on. He didn't like it at all.
Tony re-set the trap and we left it over night hoping the next morning we would have a rat in it.
However there was no rat, this time there was a ...
Very Annoyed Squirrel
The squirrel shot out of the trap like a greyhound after the hare. He was chattering at us all across the garden and up to the top of the tree.
Toy re-set the trap again, this time we must get the rat!
Yes you guessed it no rat, just a very large ...
Hedgehog
We managed to catch three hedgehogs, all the family, Dad, Mum and Junior. Still no rat.
The trap went out again.
This time eureka, a rat in the trap.
The squirrel in the garden had a look on the table and found an apple the squirrels love apples.
Squirrel finds an apple.
Squirrel takes it with him for later.
The apple is very heavy
Squirrel got all the way to the end of the fence then dropped the apple because it was so heavy. He had to climb down the fence to pick it back up. Then he ran up the tree to save it for later, or to hide somewhere for another squirrel to find.
Squirrel loves apples, grapes and sunflower seeds but he has a real liking for chocolate. so every now and again I put a square of chocolate out for the squirrels to find.The squirrel that finds it always sits on the fence and sucks or licks the chocolate enjoying every bit of it.
Mmmm choocolate.
If you look closely you can see the squirrels tongue licking the chocolate.
The young blue tits have been playing in the garden, flitting about,dive bombing each other.
Blue Tit sitting on the feeding post.
Blue Tit ready to go
Oi! watch me ead
There has not been as many blue tits in the garden this year since the nest box disappeared from the tree in the school on the sycamore tree.
The robin has been visiting quite regularly, but no sign of any young ones yet.
Which is my best side
This one?
Or this one?
Hopefully we have solved our little problem, we haven't seen it for about a week, so fingers crossed.
Until thhe next time...
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