My home is a mess

bearcub

I thought this pic might make some of you smile. They're nesting at the far end of the stable block.

sonastin

bearcub wrote: »

I thought this pic might make some of you smile. They're nesting at the far end of the stable block.

Oh they're soooo sweet! OH is being punished for not finishing off the fascias on the back of the garage in the winter - the starlings found a way in and are now happily nested in the eaves. He now can't finish the job until next winter, when he'll probably have to take down the bits where they've nested and pooped all over the place too!

Soworried - see, we all knew you could do it even if you didn't have the faith in yourself. :T

Soworried

Bearcub that picture is so good. My mam has a nest in her garden with a camera inside

bearcub

Thank you, both. I hope it picked you up a bit, soworried. So, does your mam have swallows, too?

Sonastin, your OH could continue the work any time after August, as all birds should have finished nesting by then - that is, of course, if he's available to do the work then.

I've been taking pics since the parents started picking the nest site and, until I looked at the pics when I got home today, we thought there were only three chicks. It looks as if the second in from the left is less developed than the others, so it's done well to survive.

Soworried

I am not sure what they are, they are very small and come back every year.

Isis_Black

Woo hoo evening messies :-)
Well my dishwasher arrived yesterday :T had to rearrange a lot of the units and appliances to fit it in, but it's in and already got 2 loads done with it (yes that much has built up lol) still a few more bits to go bu I'll sort them in the morning :-)

Hubby was also fab yesterday in sorting the front oom out :-)

I also managed yesterday to get our HUGE pile of clean clothes flooded and put away, only took e 4 hours with lots of breaks :rotfl:


Today as took up with watching the Olympic torch and gettin the kids sorted wit late star of school, other than that sweet fa lol
I'm shattered and hurting so hubby is now doing dinner with our youngest :-)

Hows all you lovely messies?? Great I hope :-) xx

bearcub

They're not swallows, then, soworried, if they're very small. Blue tits, maybe. Or wrens. Don't worry about it, unless you'd like to make it a small 'project' to find out.

Great news, Isis! That'll help so much, won't it? And the torch has come your way - great!

Isis_Black

Awwww bearcub they're adorable :-)

We share our house every year with a family of house sparrows :-), they've managed to raise 9 chicks this year :-)
They have all fledged but only as far as the hedge in the front garden
They like to feed off the fat balls feeder I have hanging by my front door :-) greedy little !!!!!!s they are too lol

They are so adorable though :-), will miss them when they migrate :-(
But then look forward to march next yea when we go through the excitement again, one year I'm hoping we can get a camera up to the news to sp n them :-)

Isis_Black

bearcub wrote: »

They're not swallows, then, soworried, if they're very small. Blue tits, maybe. Or wrens. Don't worry about it, unless you'd like to make it a small 'project' to find out.

Great news, Isis! That'll help so much, won't it? And the torch has come your way - great!

Maybe they're house sparrows :-)

Oh god yeah its a god send :-)

Yeah the torch went by just a minute walk from my house :-) was great my youngst was hyper lol

bearcub

The torch is coming quite close to us, too. It's coming over to the west of the island, then travelling to the centre, then back to the mainland - and we're in the west, quite close to where it'll 'land'.