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| Author: | Barbara Martin [ Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Retirement is great! |
Whether there are more varieties visiting my garden in Welbourn this winter or whether, now I'm retired, I'm spending longer at the kitchen sink during daylight hours but I've seen a tree creeper (only other time was back in '89), a bull finch and, vying for top place, a lesser redpoll (present for two weeks but disappeared as the snow came) and all this week a woodcock so well camouflaged by the leaves which I had never got around to clearing up however his camouflaging didn't work so well in the snow! Thanks to Chris Grimshaw for confirming my identification of the latter two. Barbara |
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| Author: | Barbara Martin [ Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Retirement is great! |
Bother! Having just posted the earlier entry, I see a splash outside the patio window and a heron is sitting in the pond with one of my fish in its mouth. Flew before I could get a photo. The pond is only 4 x 6 ft and surrounded by pots and has a big polystyrene thing in it to keep an area clear of ice. It's also only 5 ft away from the house wall. He must have been hungry. |
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| Author: | Roy Harvey [ Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Retirement is great! |
Glad you are enjoying retirement Barbara. You are certainly getting some good birds in the garden, I would love to see a Woodcock in ours! If you value the fish in the pond it will need protecting well as the Grey Heron will surely return! Roy |
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| Author: | John Walker [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Retirement is great! |
Barbara, the woodcock in the leaf litter was probably there because the litter keeps the frost off the ground and the woodcock can get there bills into the ground i had 2 under a garden bush with a lot of leaf litter i always leave, and it was wonderful to see them getting the full length of bills into the ground and finding food. regards John |
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