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[bev couzens]

thats good know i do love the sparrows..,,BEV

[CLKD]

co-out doesn't wear with me, I went armed with spit and hizz when the contractors arrived near here 5 years ago.  They've never been back  .......... several of 'us' went out at various times that day and eventually the Environment Agency arrived.  Best to check before it happens though 

Glad the goldfinches survived.     I don't know *where* our feather duster is 

[Taz2]

I  had never used it for dusting - it is part of my emergency kit!

Taz x

[CLKD]

I can hear a blackbird singing his socks off in our back garden, the windows are open letting the air blow through and he's happily announcing his prescence 

[Sleepless in London]

Well my friendly blackbird has gone, vanished! He would come down as soon as I put the food out, wasn't frightened at all and would quite happily hop about while I was in the garden. If he could see us in the kitchen and we took no notice he would fly onto the shed roof just outside the kitchen window and sit there as if to say “where's my grub” until we went out and fed him.  I do miss him.

We had another male and female, they used to chase him off, but they've all gone now. 

Now we have …. crows!  Not quite the same, especially their singing. 

Sleepless

[Taz2]

They should have gone really Sleepless - they will be busy nesting somewhere. Blackbirds often disappear at this time of year - especially if your garden isn't close to good nesting sites. I am sure that in the early morning - just as it gets light - they will visit the garden still. Mine still visit for their sultanas for brekkie.

As for the crows - I reckon they are probably rooks or jackdaws if there are more than one of them. Crows are very solitary birds. I reckon I could be a Crow  

Taz x

[CLKD]

Our neighbours have Jackdaws

[Taz2]

I have Jackdaws - I love the way they chatter to each other. They were most miffed when we put the cover on the chimney to stop the inevitable tumbling into the fireplace scenario.

Taz x

[viv]

We have had two new visitors this week. A very grand male pheasant and what I think was a sparrow hawk. It was brown with a speckled breast, fluffy legs and a long brown tail. It was much bigger than anything we have had before and I wonder what it was doing sitting in the corner of my garden.

Honeyb
x

[ariadne]

I had started preparing 2 hanging baskets at the weekend - I filled them with some artificial moss I'd had for years, then put them on top of a trough. This afternoon I lifted the baskets off the trough to water the seedlings in there and I noticed that one of the baskets had hardly any "moss" left in it. I wondered if birds had taken it so I moved the baskets in front of my kitchen window and when I was at the sink after tea, I noticed sparrows making trips back and forth to get more of the "moss"

I felt rather mean as I put the baskets away in the shed, but had to chuckle when I saw the sparrows incredulous little faces as they came back for more and it was gone! I'm imagining little luxury nests somewhere close by!

ariadne xx

[viv]

When I had a Golden Retriever I always used to brush her outside as they are very hairy dogs. Every time I was finished I used to put the lumps of hair into the trees at the side of the house and watch all sorts of birds come to collect it. I used to imagine all the local birds nests cozy warm with dog hair. 


Honeyb
x

[Eddie]

Must brush the dog tomorrow. Eddie. x

[viv]

With my little dog its not so much brushing as wrestling 
She hates it and she has been brushed four times a week for eight years. I appear with the brush and she hides. 

Honeyb
x

[CLKD]

I used to leave my spaniels' coat outside, it wasn't until a couple of years after we no longer had them that Hubby found a nest full of dog hair 

Grey day.  Birds busy on the meal worms.  Must have mouths to feed close by 

[CLKD]

Cuckoo is back, heard him calling yesterday afternoon whilst on a walk