Country File

[Techno II]

That's reminded me of something I haven't heard at all this year.....A Grasshopper Warbler.

Never seen one (that I know of)...But the call is very distinctive......Guess what it sounds like.

Cheers - Phil.

[Heedless Horseman]

That's reminded me of something I haven't heard at all this year.....A Grasshopper Warbler.
Never seen one (that I know of)...But the call is very distinctive......Guess what it sounds like.
Cheers - Phil.

Never seen... or heard... or heard of... before. Cheers!

[Techno II]

This absolutely disgusted me...

It's, weight wise, smaller than a sheep....are the folk/police of Bottle really that pathetic

Let's get our guns out boys, and have some target practice.

I genuinely give up.

[Raider4]

I take it you mean Rare white deer shot dead on Bootle street by police.

Aye, very sad.

[Steve J]

Sorry Phil, but what are you referring to?

[Techno II]

Sorry, Guys...I was SO frigging angry, I didn't put the link in.

Try again.

Martyn (Raider4) got the right story...Well done, Matey. 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-58718085

Fuming of Wales.

[Techno II]

And now I hurt.......(A LOT)

Our young friends....up the road ...half  a mile way.

Their young son..three ?...Far, far too much energy .....Hellfire..I'm older than his Granddad.

I was very proud of the younger of the 'labs', who was getting smacked in the face..and basically didn't react, at all.

I got ticked of, by Von, for trying to control the small person, by simply holding him....(You'll hurt your back !!)

He'll be a prop forward for Wales in fifteen years time.

[Orcs]

And now I hurt.......(A LOT)

Our young friends....up the road ...half  a mile way.

Their young son..three ?...Far, far too much energy .....Hellfire..I'm older than his Granddad.

I was very proud of the younger of the 'labs', who was getting smacked in the face..and basically didn't react, at all.

I got ticked of, by Von, for trying to control the small person, by simply holding him....(You'll hurt your back !!)

He'll be a prop forward for Wales in fifteen years time.

That would have annoyed me intensely.  The Dog was very good, but i would not have blamed the dog if he had got cross in some way.

[Heedless Horseman]

I take it you mean Rare white deer shot dead on Bootle street by police.

Aye, very sad.

F*** that's so B****y stupid!  
Maybe 'end of shift'!

[Heedless Horseman]

Now, Kids and Dogs ... or Cats...
"Where's Tigger? I want Tigger!"
"Tigger wants to be quiet".
"There's his tail !"...
"Oh, you little S***! "  

[Techno II]

Greedy Sod !!

I was pleased to see a Jay had returned a few days ago...having a go at the peanuts.

It was back again yesterday, and I watched it having another feed.
Now....The peanut holder on the shed door has a bit of broken wire towards the bottom, big enough for single peanuts to fall into a small 'tray' on the base.
The smaller birds have this sussed, so instead of pecking at the peanuts through the wire, they take whole peanuts, one at a time and then fly off...Presumably back to their nests, or to store them.

The Jay however,  was doing the equivalent of "how many gobstoppers can you fit in your mouth."
I didn't see it arrive...so I don't know how long it had been there when I first noticed it......I counted 16 peanuts going into its gob, before it spotted me and flew off !
I wonder where it's storing them ?....
Years ago magpies were taking five or so at a time and hiding them in molehills....I only found this out when I kicked a molehill flat and found dozens of the 'nuts'.

No wonder we're getting through so many peanuts.

I'm only half filling that 'broken' holder now..and using another one that the birds HAVE to peck through.
Stitch that Mr Jay.

Cheers - Phil.

[Heedless Horseman]

Never seen a Jay, local... only when patrolling nature reserves around Gateshead. Magpies annoy by demolishing about half a fat filled Coconut in one go... or pulling off twig onto ground for the Slugs!

[Techno II]

Join the club, Keith !
S*dding corvids. 

The magpies and jackdaws (as well)..are horrid little piggies.

Cheers - Phil 

[Orcs]

We regularly have a Jay in the garden

[Heedless Horseman]

Although I really, REALLY, couldn't be bothered,...( And Dog did not help!)... carefully managed to work my way down embankment of old railway line / bridle track, to collect and bin 3 beer cans, 1 plastic bottle and 1 glass bottle. (Bin within 20 yards... and not kicked over!).  You DO feel better for it! Would feel better if I could take a Bat to the  teen ********! lol.

[Heedless Horseman]

Nice to see Nuthatch  back, on peanut feeder outside kitchen... don't think I saw one last year.
And couple of Sparrers on a fat coconut. We don't get many round here, now.

[Steve J]

We have plenty of Sparrows here, around 30 in peak breeding season, but now down to around 10 at present. The Sparrowhawk took a toll a month or so ago. The long tailed tits have returned along with a few blue tits. The blackbird has been scarce, but I think the very mild weather of late and the autumnal glut of fruit means they do not have to come to the garden for food.

[Techno II]

I have to say that I was very impressed with the ingenuity of one of the Nuthatches that visits us.

I blocked the hole in the wire, at the bottom of the peanut holder, with a few smallish stones, so that the peanuts wouldn't just keep falling into the 'tray' at the base of the holder.
I thought that the nuthatch I was watching, was pecking through the wire and just feeding on 'bits' of the peanuts. The way the holder is supposed to function.

No....The clever little sod was pecking through the wire until he flipped a whole peanut over the stones and out of the hole in the wire, where he could pick it up and fly away.
The Jay hasn't sussed this yet !

Cheers - Phil.

[steve_holmes_11]

Greeted this morning by the first frost of Autumn.

[Poggle]

Pouring rain here in our part of Ohio. We can at least start putting out seed on the bird table again since the illness affecting song birds has subsided.