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IN OUR GARDEN 2023

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I Am Nico said:
No sorry. I can only see them if they appear already open on the screen. I see do you call them a blue and green thumbnail with the right hand corner missing. It is only this year I am been unable to see them. I can see my own and Pedrocut's Robin Link.
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this pic is open you have a major issue i am afraid
 
Just had a 'stray' cat asking to come in. It was eating the bird food. Felt sorry for it a little tabby, a bit thin a bit wobbly. Young. It was afraid of my partner though and scuttled off. Maybe our door is like his door?
 
I Am Nico said:
No sorry. I can only see them if they appear already open on the screen. I see do you call them a blue and green thumbnail with the right hand corner missing. It is only this year I am been unable to see them. I can see my own and Pedrocut's Robin Link.
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I have an old ipad that is problematic now because it isn't supported so not updated and it is getting more and more out of date. It has problems with incoming images now and is very slow when writing emails. Also gave me a lot of problems on Find My Past. I have had to buy a new iPad. It was 10 years old.
 
I will have to also. Buy one. Saw lots of pied wagtails about, they never come in to the garden though. They seem to like the carparks, there are a lot of fast food outlets but even in the supermarket one. Have seen them in the street. We used to get grey and yellow ones in the garden, but not now.
 
the snow drops are out again how time seems to fly
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Brummie a long time ago said:
Our jobs have been wrapping various plants in a white protective cover. This is to protect against the cold spell we have been promised, and also against the deer wandering in during the night that we have seen on our camera. Sorry about the quality, it is a frame from a video in night mode.
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They come in ones or twos, never more. We also have a visiting fox, and a regular cat from over the road, hopefully keeping our mice under control. Last night it was raining heavily, and the cat was obviously not happy as (s)he rushed across the screen heading for the underside of the car.


Over here, the robins are very much back of the queue. Very timid. We are used to them in the UK perching on the handle of a spade, almost while we are using it ! Here they stay hiding until they are sure the garden is completely clear. We only see them through the window.

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We had one flew in at my partner's mum's in France it was terrified, pooed everywhere. So we just left it, then when it was darker in the basement it could see the light and flew out via the airbricks.
 
Had a woodpecker a couple of times on the fat feeder yesterday. Happens quite often, but Julie noticed something different this time. Turns out it was a ‘middle spotted woodpecker’. Slightly smaller than the regular, and has bright red plumage on the top of the head, and a shorter beak. It feeds the same way as the regular woodpecker, hanging on the bottom the feeder with its tail feathers tucked tightly between its legs, almost making a right angle. Very wary, it will be difficult to photograph, if it comes back again that is. It can see us through the window and it is gone. However, I will try to creep up on it next time.
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Brummie a long time ago said:
Had a woodpecker a couple of times on the fat feeder yesterday. Happens quite often, but Julie noticed something different this time. Turns out it was a ‘middle spotted woodpecker’. Slightly smaller than the regular, and has bright red plumage on the top of the head, and a shorter beak. It feeds the same way as the regular woodpecker, hanging on the bottom the feeder with its tail feathers tucked tightly between its legs, almost making a right angle. Very wary, it will be difficult to photograph, if it comes back again that is. It can see us through the window and it is gone. However, I will try to creep up on it next time.
Andrew.
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We saw a black woodpecker in France. It has a bright red crest and mournful cry like a gibbon. It was that we heard first. They may be red under the rump but he was upright. Going up a tree. I noted their wrens are bigger. Now she was surprisingly tame. Nesting on the balcony in the gap between the wooden vertical roller wooden blind abd the wall. Les volets. I checked the 40 year old bird book , they have been spotted here, no pun intended. It also gives the names in German French & Italian.
 
The robins are now coming in to the garage every day when I get the bird food out. So I am leaving some extra in a small dish for when I am not there and they just nip in if I am late and take some. I even get a brush of their wings on my coat or hat or shoulder, like they do it on purpose? I am surprised they come inside for food. No other birds are. (yet). They are even trying to suspend upside side on the coconut feeder though not very successful. They must see the tits do it. How fast they learn.
 
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Primulas coming out and crocus, snowdrops, some daffs not the ancient ones, pigeons nesting. Blackbirds are picking the moss off the corrugated garage roof. They have really tuned it over and chucked it on the yard. The roof has started to leak so we don't know if the most protects or damages the roof. Foxes have been calling a lot. Lots of slightly grubby gulls about not clean like the seaside ones.
 
That's the good thing about glazed pots, you can repot them year after year, or re top them with soil, makes the garden look brand new.

Well it's a lovely day here, a wrap up day. But I'm recovering from a hospital visit yesterday (no need for concern), so I'm staying in. Hopefully tomorrow will be as nice.
 
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