A busy garden

It has been a very busy day in the garden today, the tits are all starting to come back today it was the Coal Tits and the Great Tits.

Then there were the Dunnocks and the Starlings,

The garden would not be complete without a Robin and a couple of Sparrows.

This Sparrow is only a young one and had to fight to get near the suet ball then had to struggle to stay on them. He/she put up a good fight though and managed to stay there long enough to grab a beakful before letting go and landing in the sparrow bush where it was eaten with relish.











I think that ...

Todays photo of the day

Has to go to Miss Squirrel,

She is still busy feeding babies as you can tell by her picture, she comes down to the garden for something to eat, she has a gnaw on her old bone, then settles down for a rest. While she is here she watches everything happening in the garden I sometimes wonder what she thinks to it all!

I could make a guess but then Tony would only say I was going daft again. He might be right one day, but not just yet, 

Until tomorrow...

Now what was the saying?

I have nothing to say today! 

I am just leaving the photo and the saying "Red shoes, ? ?"

Todays photo of the day

Red shoes?

Until tomorrow...

Robin's not happy

Robin is not around much just lately, when he does show himself he is not his usual happy self. He has a scruffy coat tail feathers missing or he just looks really fed up. When he appeared today it was the same. His face looked very sore, he has a bald patch behind his eye and what looked like blood around his face. He did not look happy at all he looked really down in the dumps.

Todays photo of the day

Robin looking sorry for himself.

I don't know if he has been fighting or if he is just having a really bad moult.

Until tomorrow...

Collar Dove numbers are up

This morning I had an appointment at the doctors. I had to go as the pain was getting so much worse I had to do something. Dr Daru was his usual cheerful self, he asked me what he could do for me and I told him "shoot me" I don't think he believed I meant it, as he just laughed at me then carried on as if it had never been said. I am now back on Tramadol instead of Co-codamol so hopefully the pain will get better to handle  soon. 

After returning home I went down to feed the birds and squirrels, the garden is attracting a lot of Collar Doves at the moment, sometimes as many as 14 at a time. There is no wonder the Sparrowhawk is hunting in the garden again.

Todays photo of the day

A close up of a Collar Dove

One of this years Collar Dove fledglings, we have lost a few to the Sparrowhawk this year hopefully we will not lose too many more.

Until tomorrow...

Bread baking day

Today I was back in the kitchen baking bread. I made Tony's favourite, Olive & Garlic loaf. I also baked a Multi-seeded and I tried something new, A Boozy Loaf.

The Boozy Loaf can be made with beer, cider or lager, I made our's with a can of Strongbow dark fruits Cider. It was very tasty, I was surprised that the bread tasted of the cider I expected the taste to disappear during baking. I will definitely try the recipe again but next time I will use lager or a bottle of beer.

Todays photo of the day

Fresh Baked Bread.

The loaf on the board is The Boozy Bread, The Loaf on the wire next to the fruit bowl is the Olive & Garlic loaf and next to that is the Multi-seeded loaf.

Tony has passed them all as very tasty so they must be good not that I am being big headed or anything.

Until tomorrow...

The Rogue Seeds

The Wild Bird Seed I buy always has printed on the side of the bag non-growing seed. I think either the suppliers are unable to keep that promise or the seeds are getting into the bag un-noticed, but whatever there are always one or two rogue seeds that manage to grow.

Todays photo of the day

A Rogue Seed happily growing in our garden.

I will just leave it to grow along with four others scattered around the garden.

Until tomorrow...

A sigh of relief

I am pleased to see the Juvenile Woodpecker in the garden today, we were a bit worried he had become Sparrowhawk lunch. Tony had found some feathers in the garden a few days ago that we both thought looked like woodpecker feathers and we both thought the worst, so it was a relief to see him happily tucking into the peanut butter on the bush this afternoon.

Todays photo of the day

The Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Until tomorrow...