almostnormal

its been a sadly neglected blog this - i've been so busy over the last few weeks and months, what with the new job, the survey season, the wedding planning, the garden building...its been a bit hectic. but there we go - lifes a funny old thing, busy as anything one moment - dead as a dodo the next!

the breeding season (aka that survey season) has seen me running around county durham, teesdale and bits of northumberland for a few months and now that the results are finally all in i...

ho hum....so a new thing has been discovered since i last blogged about my lovely little birdies, a new and well odd thing has happened...we were wondering why it was that we see birdies on the fat ball feeder, and yet not enough to go though the many fat balls we seem to. then the other day i saw a red squirrel lift the top of the fat ball feeder up and take a full at ball away...has anyone else ever encountered this, i have to ask myself, because if so i shall need help identifying a way of stopping...

Just before Christmas I relocated to Northumberland, to a lovely farm cottage about a mile from Hadrian's Wall. The cottage is surreounded by open farmland and pine woodlands and moorland. Its great. Behind the house is a stand of Scots pine and in this there are some lovely red squirrls and lots of lovely birdies.

Which is brilliant, we've got chaffinches, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, gret spotted woodpeckers and bramblings, and siskins. Gt o love the fact that these flock...