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So I step out to feed by rabbits whose hutch is by the back door and come face to face with a tiny little male Wren perched on the top.
We both freeze, but instead of him then taking flight he starts angrily chattering at me and giving me a stern look. :?
He then hops up to the back gate and watches while I follow and see a little ball of a nest tucked up in the ivy where the gate post meets the wall. Four gaping yellow mouths stop squeeking and they all look at me.
I back slowly away and continue to feed the rabbits, and the brave little guy follows me to sit back on the hutch. He then proceeded to take a quick bath in an old dish that had colllected a bit of rain water, had a quick drink, one last, slightly less angry sounding chatter to me then off he goes down the garden.
That was just so cool.
Then as I'm typing this (my computer's in the kitchen and I've got the back door open by the way) there's this tapping. I look over and there's a young Blackbird whose hopped up the back steps and in through the door! He's gainfully picking off a couple of moths who were hiding down by the skirting board.
Beak full of bugs and off he flies back down the garden. I know they are nesting in the conifers there.
I guess it pays not to have cats and to always have seed n water in my garden all year for the birds.
Ey up, the little wren babies are squeeking again. I suddenly feel all protective over my garden now. :oops:
Peter Henry
12-07-06, 04:22 PM
You din't have a catapult handy then?....What? :? :wink:
Aaawww, that's so kewl. :)
Best watch out for cats then, thats pretty cool though we have little robins and the like nesting around the house
awwww its easy to forget all the nature stuff when its not sort of in your face, we dont have a garden as yet :( so I miss all that,
but anyway one day... sigh :(
:cat:
Anonymous
12-07-06, 04:50 PM
Those little birdy things are quite pretty and mildly entertaining, but you would think that evolution would have created in them an understanding of the need for diapers and/or toilet tissue and not KEEP CRA99ING ON MY CAR!!
Filipe M.
12-07-06, 04:51 PM
Those little birdy things are quite pretty and mildly entertaining, but you would think that evolution would have created in them an understanding of the need for diapers and/or toilet tissue and not KEEP CRA99ING ON MY CAR!!
Sorry fella, but I'd rather have'em doing on it your car than on my bike's seat! :lol: :lol: :lol:
JUICY LUCY
12-07-06, 05:12 PM
Aw that's so cute. I wuv cugly, fwuffy, furry animoos :smt038
Best watch out for cats then, thats pretty cool though we have little robins and the like nesting around the house
Cats, there's about five or six round about us, but they know better than to come into my back garden.
Between me and the dog we've taught them it's a dangerous place for cats. I'm a good shot with a supersoaker and he can actually climb half way up our apple tree - certainly gave a few cats a bit of a shock when they thought they could taunt him from there!
I may look into putting up some nest boxes for spring next year.
That and they could really do with a proper bird bath - I hardly ever use the barbeque so whenever it rains they get to use that until it dries up! :oops:
Aw that's so cute. I wuv cugly, fwuffy, furry animoos :smt038
I'm sorry Lucy, you appear to have developed some strange kind of speech impediment. Could you possibly repeat last message in English? :wink: :P
Filipe M.
12-07-06, 05:34 PM
Aw that's so cute. I wuv cugly, fwuffy, furry animoos :smt038
I'm sorry Lucy, you appear to have developed some strange kind of speech impediment. Could you possibly repeat last message in English? :wink: :P
Quiff might be able to twanswate it...
awwww its easy to forget all the nature stuff when its not sort of in your face, we dont have a garden as yet :( so I miss all that,
but anyway one day... sigh :(
:cat:
you don't need to have a garden!!!
I have the local blue and great tit and sparrow population on my windows tapping them if there's no seed or they have finished the fat balls. I hang the seed feeder and balls on a bracket for hanging baskets. So far they have gone through 10k of seed in two months!
I'm lucky that I have a balcony that leads to all the font doors of the flats and they sit on this and chirp loudly. They also nick all the fluffy stuff for my hanging basket liners. Though I did spot two sparrows sitting in my grass today (this is sad but I planted a large trough with grass seed just so I could say I have a lawn/garden - it takes all over 3 minutes to mow!) :roll: :roll: :roll:
I miss not having the birds around anf get m&d tocome up to feed the birds not water the plants!!
valleyboy
12-07-06, 09:13 PM
Aw that's so cute. I wuv cugly, fwuffy, furry animoos :smt038
I'm sorry Lucy, you appear to have developed some strange kind of speech impediment. Could you possibly repeat last message in English? :wink: :P
Its in Wenglish :lol: I think :P
Quiff Wichard
12-07-06, 09:16 PM
Aw that's so cute. I wuv cugly, fwuffy, furry animoos :smt038
I'm sorry Lucy, you appear to have developed some strange kind of speech impediment. Could you possibly repeat last message in English? :wink: :P
Quiff might be able to twanswate it...
WHY ??
oh yea..
quiff.. twan-- I get it... ! less beer needed.
Well Oiled
12-07-06, 09:26 PM
Lock yer windows. It's the old Hitchcock film come true.
wheelnut
12-07-06, 10:18 PM
Im afraid I have got birds with suicidal tendencys. I have picked 3 baby blackbirds up after they were racing each other. 2 have hit the windows and one hit a wire cable holding the nesting box.
I have a couple of nests above my bedroom window and its ever so funny to watch these apprentice flyers out with their mother
I have loads of wildlife in the garden, my landlord is a twitcher, so in winter we fight. I feed the squirrels and he tries to poison them.
Anonymous
13-07-06, 03:29 PM
my mate from work was out power walking and was walking under a tree. she thought she had hit her head on a low branch looked up and saw 3 rooks or crows dive bombing her. she had to up the pace to a full blown screaming run, waving hand weights above her head. got home and her head was bleeding in 3 places. scary stuff. teach her to power walk :lol:
We had a nest with baby robins in it, 2 of them. We watched for a couple of months the parents tooing a frowing, only for the effin squirrels to come and attack them...Nature can be sooooo cruel sometimes.
philipMac
13-07-06, 07:15 PM
Birds get very brave when they have babies alright.
Did you ever walk into a seabird colony when they have chicks?
Bloody hell. :shock: Nothing subtle like cheeping there.
More like, "Right, for starters I am going to take a healthy dump on you, just for the sheer cheek, and we will take it from there pal"
My little babies can fly.
All four of them took their first few little flights today.
One I found stranded on the path just below the nest where it had just popped out from under the bush. Or rather my dog found him.
Bless him, all Kodo did was give it a quick sniff - it cheeped at him a bit, so he ever so gently nosed it off the path and back under the bush where it had come from. Looked smug and then mooched back into the house.
My pets never cease to amaze me - generally be being far cleverer than I am! :roll: :oops:
Peter Henry
13-07-06, 08:14 PM
You planning on getting a cat for next year K as Kodo sounds a right wimp! :twisted:
Yeah, he is a bit of a softie.
Squeeky toys cause him to wimper and gently bring them to us for care and attention as he thinks he's cause some strange creature pain - and he get very conserned for the tortoise as he seems to think it's some poor beast that's trapped in a rock.
(It doesn't help when the tortoise tries to bite him!)
When I had an Iguana she used to beat him up and send him hiding on the sofa too.
But bless him, he's got it where it counts - he rightously defends the house and garden from cat incursion, attack from above by Hot Air Balloon and the Moon during the day (neither have wings therefore shouldn't be in the sky, and the Moon is only supposed to be out at night :roll: ).
He can viciously 'kill' and 'gut' his rugby shirt on command - showing he would know what to do if he ever caught a squirrel.
Best of all he will very vocally defend my right to an undisturbed lay in or midday siesta. If I'm sleeping he apparently turns into a little Rottwieler and won't let anyone past the bedroom door without growling at them. Barking and snarling if they dare to set foot inside or try to disturb me on my hammock in the garden.
OK, so it wakes me up... but he tries bless him. :roll:
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