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Barn Owl
21-03-2010, 17:44
Swallows and Sand Martins reported in my airt.
w00dsmoke
21-03-2010, 17:48
Wow! That seems really early. Not much feeding around for these early birds then!
Barn Owl
21-03-2010, 17:56
Hope they can manage,it's been tough this winter so far for the stay at hamers.
That winter we got has killed a lot of my plants , hardy ones aswell ...
I've got those one day mozzie sized wee flies hatched here already......next will be the midgies :sigh:
The garden is full of birdsong tonight though :D and they're all pairing off like crazy.
cheers,
Mary
I've got those one day mozzie sized wee flies hatched here already......next will be the midgies :sigh:
The garden is full of birdsong tonight though :D and they're all pairing off like crazy.
cheers,
Mary
shhhhoo sh the midges will hear u ...AW NAW NO MIDGESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSS:pokenest:
Can you imagine Scotland with no midgies ?
.............fu' o' tourists :rolleyes:
Now, no clegs I could thole :approve:
cheers,
Toddy
Aye summers on the way. Cloots have been well and truly cast.
Here's a question for the twitchers, I saw a pretty wee bird today on the water of leith which I suspect was a Dipper (http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/d/dipper/index.aspx). The only thing I can't get my head around is that it was singing its wee heart out, not unlike a Robin or Blackbird. Do Dippers sing?
Spring wise, The elder bushes were budding on the Water of Leith and the whole damned place reeks of Wild Garlic.
Toddy, don't get me started on the birdsong. Herself seems to be having problems thermoregulating at the moment, probably something to do with her condition. :rolleyes:
Anyway she opened the bedroom window about 4am just in time to catch the full dawn chorus. What a bloody racket! ;) :cool:
Yeah :D
My next door neighbour is heart roasted again with the squeaky wheel bird (Great Tit) that sits singing his wee heart out in the big Sycamore behind the houses. At 4am he's wishing he'd an air rifle :rolleyes:
I've got short tailed voles appeared in my compost bins :confused: I thought they stuck to grassland, and they've been no where near the bins as far as I could see all Winter.
These bins don't get hot, they sit directly on the soil, and they're full of brandling worms........open one up and a knot of writhing worms bigger than a grapefruit drops off the lid. Great compost though :approve:
cheers,
Toddy
I've just remembered that it was the equinox last night too. :D
did she have blonde hair , i think it was u twitching... haa haaa
mochasidamo
21-03-2010, 21:00
hmm...some sort of Scottish knees up. Shuffles off... ;)
Trisha, escaped south at 25.
I didn't even notice that it was all Scots so far on this thread :rolleyes:
We were just blethering :cool:
cheers,
M
bushcraftbob
21-03-2010, 21:09
Went for a walk in my local woods today - celandines and wild garlic everywhere. I love Spring it really does lift your spitits afer a long cold winter like we've had.
JonathanD
21-03-2010, 21:09
Can't understand a word of this thread :confused:
Barn Owl
21-03-2010, 21:18
Aye Dippers sing guidstyle,it's jist ye cannae hear it o'er the rush o' the water maist times.
Lovely wee song they sing.
Barn Owl
21-03-2010, 21:20
I've just remembered that it was the equinox last night too. :D
Jings! Already?
Take it the clocks go forward next weekend then.
Barn Owl
21-03-2010, 21:22
Can't understand a word of this thread :confused:
Good excuse to come up and visit more often.:D
Went out for a walk accross country today and the sun was shining for a change :) On the way back a distinctive noise made me look skyward; I could only see the silhouettes, but initially I thought I could make out the the shape of a few House Martins and then a few seconds later I was convinced I was staring at the distinctive tail shape of a Swallow or two.
There seemed to be two groups close together at the most I probably only saw 8 birds. Is it possible that Martins and Swallows would fly together? I didn't see any others after that.
Summer's coming!?
Presumably it's going to bypass Spring, then - because that's taking an age to happen this year...
I've got collared dove chicks in a hanging basket. :)
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/zorrothegreyblade/100_3127.jpg
Makes a change from chicken. :D
JonathanD
04-04-2010, 18:29
I've got collared dove chicks in a hanging basket. :)
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll292/zorrothegreyblade/100_3127.jpg
Makes a change from chicken. :D
Damn theyse urgly :D
JonathanD
04-04-2010, 18:30
Good excuse to come up and visit more often.:D
Couldn't agree more mate, lovely part of the world. I only seem to get up there in late Autumn and Winter.
Damn theyse urgly :D
Yep. :)
I've named them Ant and Dec. :D