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14-08-2007, 02:54 PM
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Well out on my daily run this morning didnt see very much in the way of wildlife..even the ducks in the nearby lake didnt seem to happy about making a splash..Back in the garden the little Blue tits are in the trees picking up what they can ...the doves have nested in the Buddleia for the second year running , two babies again this time..the parents seem to have the bird table to themselves everybody else has stayed at home...its not just us that get fed up with the weather... 
Whats going on in your garden on this rainy day ...
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14-08-2007, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by juliejam  Whats going on in your garden on this rainy day ... | I've been watching a grey squirrel working it's way through the various pieces of bird feeding kit on my tree, finishing off the fat feeder  , emptying the seed and munching through the old bread on the bird table !!!!
I tried making as much noise as I could (without making myself look even more insane to the neighbours) in an attempt to scare it off as I can't get out into the garden because it's just too wet but it just looked at me as if to say,' strange human' before carrying on.
Apart from that, nothing else to be seen at the mo. 
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14-08-2007, 03:09 PM
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a dunnock, 3 young blackbirds, at the moment all on the lawn and under the shrubs, afew blue, coal and great tits visiting the feeder but not seen them today, and the odd Greater spotted woodpecker, longtail tit, goldfinch every few days.
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14-08-2007, 03:18 PM
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I'm wondering about how to release my poor moths that I caught last night........ poor things, rain is no good for them! Going to have to fashion some kind of umbrella type system in the hedge at the bottom of my garden I think! |
14-08-2007, 03:29 PM
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I've just returned home to find 1 male Blackbird, 2 young Starlings and 2 robins making a meal out of the worms on the grass and also enjoying the bird seed I put out for them. We normally get quite a few GreatTits but no sign of them today. |
14-08-2007, 04:41 PM
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Been raining almost non-stop here today. Just one somewhat soggy Great Tit on the bird feeders at the moment. |
14-08-2007, 07:39 PM
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We have a Canadian Turkey Roaming my garden at the mo. oh and a pigeon on an ash tree and now a pheasant. Oh and now a Gold Finch & Green Finch probably as it has stopped raining!  |
14-08-2007, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jez We have a Canadian Turkey Roaming my garden at the mo. oh and a pigeon on an ash tree and now a pheasant. Oh and now a Gold Finch & Green Finch probably as it has stopped raining! | Now that is random
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14-08-2007, 09:35 PM
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Just 2 Collared Doves in the garden today looking rather bedraggled. |
18-08-2007, 12:35 AM
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After a reasonably dry week its now raining again! When's summer coming?
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19-08-2007, 03:59 PM
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Up here in Northumberland we've managed to avoid all the floods and days and days of rain which hit the southern part of the UK earlier this year but today? Chucking it down! Blowing a gale and it's mizzling down - you know, that fine stuff which really soakens you in minutes. But rather bizarrely it's very warm! 
As long as it's dry for my day off on Thursday I don't care what it does the rest of the week!  I haven't had the chance to get out birding much these past two months *broken binoculars* and my withdrawal symptoms are killing me!!!! I've just treated myself to a new pair of bins last week though so, obviously, I need to go out to play with them, don't I? |
19-08-2007, 04:20 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: N.Yorkshire.... The Dales... can't beat it tbh
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Originally Posted by Gill Osborne As long as it's dry for my day off on Thursday I don't care what it does the rest of the week! I haven't had the chance to get out birding much these past two months *broken binoculars* and my withdrawal symptoms are killing me!!!! I've just treated myself to a new pair of bins last week though so, obviously, I need to go out to play with them, don't I? | You sure do need to go 'christen' your new bins Gill! I've got my fingers crossed for good weather for you on Thursday
It's been raining/drizzling for nearly 2 days here now  the blue and coal tits are active on the peanut feeders and I've just literally bought them a fat feeder in half a coconut and hung it out, so I'll see if they like it soon.
So I'm looking out the window right now and I've got one greenfinch, about 5 sparrows and a juvenile robin (feeding in the arbour - just sussed out where I can put some seed that the pigeons haven't found yet lol!) oh, and had a female chaffy thismorning as well as the Jay that's now gone sadly. They're all soggy, but tucking in lol!  |
19-08-2007, 05:22 PM
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Jackdaws on our window ledge eating the bread we put there - one of them peeping in at us sitting in the dry while he/she looks pretty bedraggled! |
19-08-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by paulchandler6 After a reasonably dry week its now raining again! When's summer coming? | i think we must have blinked and missed it. |
20-08-2007, 08:31 AM
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My garden is full of wildlife. One female sparrow, a bee and two moths. Last week there were two butterflies; both cabbage whites. The only regular visiters are two cats. Plenty of snails and frogs about but nothing else. |
20-08-2007, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Interpreter My garden is full of wildlife. One female sparrow, a bee and two moths. Last week there were two butterflies; both cabbage whites. The only regular visiters are two cats. Plenty of snails and frogs about but nothing else. | Do I detect a little sarcasm here?
Actually-you're probably doing better than us. NO butterflies at all! 
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20-08-2007, 08:06 PM
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Despite the awful weather,I have not noticed any difference, I still have the usual wide range of birds visiting, feral AND wood pigeon.
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20-08-2007, 08:34 PM
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slugs! snails!! woodlice!!! Nothing but moluscs and crustaceans.
Makes you feel glad to be alive.
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21-08-2007, 10:23 PM
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Looks like we could get the great British summer on Saturday . Lets hope they are right.
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22-08-2007, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by paulchandler6 Looks like we could get the great British summer on Saturday . Lets hope they are right. | But it's bank holiday weekend, that means rain, ever body knows that
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22-08-2007, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Billy Wobble Dagger But it's bank holiday weekend, that means rain, ever body knows that | Oh that's so true... |
22-08-2007, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Cazzie Oh that's so true... | hung my washing out 9.30am got it in again 9.45 why? raining again,no butterflys or moths only bird about were sparrows after the sunflower seeds,only thing that sounds happy are my cockatiels playing games,but then their not getting wet cos they have a roof on their flight,the wind is howling in fact its a real nasty day for august. |
23-08-2007, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by naturelover hung my washing out 9.30am got it in again 9.45 why? raining again,no butterflys or moths only bird about were sparrows after the sunflower seeds,only thing that sounds happy are my cockatiels playing games,but then their not getting wet cos they have a roof on their flight,the wind is howling in fact its a real nasty day for august. | Aww that's a shame, it's been lovely here all day - ner ner na ner ner lol!!! |
23-08-2007, 03:34 PM
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hi got up at 7.30 weather didnt look bad at least it was dry,stripped our bed hung it on the line nice,after lunch i thought i would do some gardening have a large hebe in a pot so desided to plant it in the garden,got my hole half dug out guese what it started raining, my bedding was still on the line so i had to get it in with my arms cos my hands were black now in the tumble dryer,my hebe is still in its pot hole half dug grrrrrrrrrrrr i am now on my old faithful the wab and its pouring of rain yet again. |
23-08-2007, 03:48 PM
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Its bikini weather here today!!!
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