And other stories from the garden
Posted in Administrivia on Jan 30th, 2008
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Posted in NestCam on Jan 27th, 2008
As Chris has said Karma is the calmer of the two birds and Buzz the more energetic. You can also tell them apart by their facial markings: Karma has a smaller white triangle patch above the eyes and wider eye stripes and Buzz has a larger white triangle and narrower eye stripes. No idea [...]
Here are a couple more snippets from the nestcam for you. Firstly we see the calmer of the two birds, whom Sophie has named Karma, asking the question “What’re you looking at?”
https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/who_you_watching.flv
And then the exciting moment when both blue tits were in the box together. Watch closely - it wasn’t a very long moment! Seems [...]
Posted in Garden on Jan 27th, 2008
We spent the day working in our newly laid out garden today. We had a bunch of plants to plant in the bog garden, and a Victoria plum tree up at the end of the lawn. We’ve got a little seating area on decking right at the bottom of the garden, in what will be [...]
Posted in Garden on Jan 26th, 2008
I did my hour’s bird count this morning. Unfortunately the 2 long tailed tits I saw the other day didn’t show up and the goldfinches and dunnocks were shyer than usual. Anyway I saw:
6 siskins
2 robins
1 goldfinch
1 dunnock
3 blackbirds
2 blue tits
5 starlings
6 sparrows
1 wren
2 collared doves
1 wood pigeon.
We’ve got some wonderful new blue tit film… [...]