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[Mbrown001]

Me neither. I just love watching my birds and was so chuffed after years of trying to finally have gold finches in the garden. Despite the mess they make they are my favourites.

Mrs Brown

[babyjane]

we have a pair that visit us and they like eating the baby spiders on the clematis trellis

[Wrensong]

We have gardening blackbirds as well, Babyjane.  They often seem to disapprove of my designs, tugging out new seedlings in the borders & flinging new compost out of the tops of pots onto the patio.  They are so comical to watch.

[Hurdity]

Greater spotted woodpecker wakes me every morning now at dawn with its "chip" call as it tucks voraciously into the peanuts in the front garden below our window - visiting several times a day . I love this time of year too!

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

Cow parsley/Queen Anne's Lace is everywhere this year  .  Thought I might like to grow it in our garden but there really isn't any need!

3 baby starlings spotted last evening begging noisily at ragged parents 

[Hurdity]

Queen Anne's Lace  . I have heard of this plant but not sure quite what you are referring to as I have never used this name for anything. I looked it up and says it is wild carrot (Daucus carota) - I have mainly seen this by the sea on maritime grassland but I think it also grows in unimproved meadows too?

Yes we get lots of cow parsley along the lanes and in the grass bordering the veg garden as well as in our patch of old grassland behind the veg garden!

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

 

[Elizabethrose]

Just found this too CLKD, makes for an interesting read!

http://www.gardenforever.com/pages/artQueen.htm

We grew up recognising it as a result of my father's great knowledge of plants. We never knew it as anything other than Queen Anne's lace though. x

[Taz2]

Nineteen baby starlings in the "pen" - they are SO noisy. Lovely to see though.

Taz x

[CLKD]

Cow Parsley is what we have lots of 

Very few birds around today.  Quite quiet other than something singing whilst I was in the bath with the window open ....

[Taz2]

You can share some of my noise if you like!! Twenty two babies today plus over thirty parent birds. They make such a racket!!

Taz x

[CLKD]

Great aren't they!

[Taz2]

They are lovely to watch especially them having their first baths being ducked under the waterfall in the pond by the parent birds to get their plumage water proofed. So many people don't like starlings but I think they are great.

Taz x

[Wrensong]

Yesterday, under a Simpsons sky on the lovely rural drive back from our nearest farm supply store, latest sack of wild bird seed weighing down the boot - our second woodpecker sighting in 3 days.  This time, not a spotty head-banger, but the flash of green & yellow flank speeding across in front of us, 6' above the car, frantic wing-beats duck-like.  A few yards further on, the characteristic, undulating flight of a pale grey heron, high above the hedgerow, legs trailing like a sailor's pigtail.  Later, along the river, a brood of 7 tiny, stripy ducklings, soft with still-yellow down, darting across the glinting water's surface, oblivious to the pike below, with gently smiling jaws!

[Mbrown001]

What a lovely picture to paint for us Wrensong.

Thank you

Mrs Brown