Hello from Lossiemouth

guardian · #1 (**permalink**) 15-02-2007, 09:34 AM

Good morning all, I'm very pleased to find this forum site, at last folk with similar ideals and enthusiasms.

Let me introduce myself, I am Guardian and I live in the north of Scotland, Moray to be precise and Lossiemouth in particular.

I enjoy watching many bird visitors to my garden and try to garden with wildlife and the environment in mind.

My greatest joy at the the moment is a particular visitor to the bird table in the form of a woodpecker, I have never seen one so close and wish I had a good camera to catch him on film. He particularly enjoys the peanuts but all the wee birdies are scared away by him, he doesn't sem to be aggressive towards them but he is so much larger than they are.

It is a chilly morning but the sun is shining weakly and there's a good stiff breeze.

Yesterday we planted three Ash trees around the garden, we have an old one and the seed keys self-germinate throughout the garden, which is wonderful but they always seem to grow in the most peculiar and inconvenient places, usually where they would undermine the foundations if they stayed. So I dig them up, pot them and then grow them on for a couple of years and yesterday we planted them out. I wonder if they will look like their 'mother' tree when they grow up.

I look forward to making some new friends and exchanging thoughts and ideas.

goosey · #2 (**permalink**) 15-02-2007, 09:48 AM

hello Guardian , so glad you found WAB -I can't imagine life without it now

It sounds as if you have a magnificent garden, have you had success in the past planting out ash seedlings before? lucky you with your woodpecker - birds give me such pleasure when they come to feed in my garden. Enjoy yourself here there's so much to learn and I'm sure you'll have lots to contribute.

buzfuz8149 · #3 (**permalink**) 15-02-2007, 10:30 AM

Hi Guardian,

A warm welcome to WAB, glad you found the site, it is very friendly and plenty of help and information available.
We have a lot of Ash trees locally and there seems a few that still have their keys, most have shed them all but these odd ones are still full, have you found that?

Lucky you with the woodpecker.

Carol.

Tim Chilcott · #4 (**permalink**) 15-02-2007, 10:58 AM

Hi Gaurdian,
I used to get a green woodpecker that swept the lawn with a bunch of starlings, I think it was suffering an identity crisis.
I've recently bought a DSLR camera and it's great capturing the beautiful world around us; it gets a little addictive, though, and then expensive (woops, just got another lens for bugs

)
Tugboat

Monkster · #5 (**permalink**) 15-02-2007, 01:58 PM

Good afternoon Guardian
And a warm welcome from me too!
You will surely enjoy yourself here. It's a very friendly and informative site, I have learnt so much already and have only been here for a short time .
You are very lucky to have a woodpecker so close , you will have to get a photo of him .....once you see the photos in the Gallery you will be inspired. I am and am now saving up for a for a new digital camera myself!
Anyway have fun and enjoy the site.
The Daily Monkster