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When Bill Oddy did Springwatch he talked about "getting to know your patch" and the advantages of regularly watching it.
I now have two patches, the back garden of the house , and a second alongside a route I hope to walk more regularly now with lengthening days..
In my LJ blog "Rhubarb patch" I reflected: "It recently occurred to me that ...rhubarb leaves are poisonous, rhubarb stems are sour and especially in damp conditions the foot of a rhubarb stem is likely to be slimy.....
in this I will try not to be posionous, sour or slimy!
I now have two patches, the back garden of the house , and a second alongside a route I hope to walk more regularly now with lengthening days..
In my LJ blog "Rhubarb patch" I reflected: "It recently occurred to me that ...rhubarb leaves are poisonous, rhubarb stems are sour and especially in damp conditions the foot of a rhubarb stem is likely to be slimy.....
in this I will try not to be posionous, sour or slimy!
A bit windy
Posted 17-10-2011 at 08:16 PM by Jonquil_d
The forecast for today was for rain and more rain accompanied by lots of wind and early it was windy but dry...so this afternoon I did my usual circular walk....there were flocks of starlings and jackdaws, and black headed gulls, and the mallard and six geese were on the pond with no sign of the moorhens,and a few pairs of crows and rooks and very little else to see....bar a Kestrel which struggled to an overhead wire and then flew off ofter sounding off its by now familiar call.
A garden feeding station which is in a sheltered location had a number of greenfinch and there were feral pigeons picking up the droppings below the table....something that on previous visits I have seen done by Chaffinch.
After my return the rain did come and how! Glad there was no need to go out in it..and that like most of the birds on the patch it was possible to keep my head down and seek shelter....no idea where they go to do this but they must find somewhere.
A garden feeding station which is in a sheltered location had a number of greenfinch and there were feral pigeons picking up the droppings below the table....something that on previous visits I have seen done by Chaffinch.
After my return the rain did come and how! Glad there was no need to go out in it..and that like most of the birds on the patch it was possible to keep my head down and seek shelter....no idea where they go to do this but they must find somewhere.
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