06-05-2017, 01:32 PM | #1 |
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The swifts are back
At 1pm today the swifts arrived back in Salisbury( over my house) scooting about the sky as if they were so happy to be back. Well I am very happy they are back, it genuinely lifts my spirits when I see them, and while sitting in my garden, on a warm sunny day, watching swifts , I'm also enjoying watching all my torts out enjoying the warm sunshine. I have a regular visit from a black bird, he has his daily bath in one of the tortoise water dishes, and a couple of great tits, they keep going round the shed and fence, I think they are collecting spider webs to make their nest. What could be better than all this, not much in my book, except being in Cornwall .
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I had some flying around yesterday afternoon for about an hour but not seen them since maybe they were on route to you Suze. And today I have seen one of the hobbies that nest at the bottom of the garden so the swallows and swifts better be on their guard
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I've got a lovely new brick wall down the left side of the garden ( the sunny side) so I'm going to be planting along there for the torts, and it will be a nice warm place for them to bask. So off to the garden centre tomorrow.
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Lucky you hearing a cuckoo I haven't heard one in years. I just have the war of the robins and the return of the rabbits!
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I did have a Robin , who was a regular visitor in January , so got a bird feeder and Robin food, he kept coming for a few weeks and had the bird feeder all to himself, then just stopped, and I haven't seen him since. He was such a little sweetie .
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At the moment we are buying up all the mealworms Pets at Home have as there are three pairs and it is like World War 3. My original one "Robbie" is getting beaten up by a pair of usurpers so I have to protect him! I feed all the others in four different places around the garden and to say thank you they poo in everything from the barbeque to my wellington boots.
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Birds are wonderful aren't they. I rescued a green woodpecker once , on boxing day . I found it in the middle of the road - I didn't realise wood peckers came in different colours and I didnt want it being squished so I placed it in a rabbit hutch as everyone said it was dead but it was knocked out ! and up it sat and flew off after finding itself !
The robins are dive bombing at the moment ! ? they are quite territorial this year, never noticed it before. but wow do they get close to the hair line ! CB
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