A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Mrs_Chip

Hi Shegar

Our garden is full of birds too - Siskins, blue tits, great tits, coal tits , chaffinches, greenfinches and goldfinches. They are hammering the nyger so much we have had to buy a 20kg bag:rotfl: But they are lovely and we often just sit and watch them for ages. The downside is that we have a Sparrowhawk too, but they all have to eat I guess.

GreyQueen

manchestermargo wrote: »

Thanks smileyt for your welcome, not worked out the smiley faces etc, give me time!

Quite a nice day here, sun appeared several times and definately warmer.
MM

Ohh, you found them! Don't forget to check out the extra ones underneath the commonest ones by clicking on more. That's where you find all sorts of great stuff.

shegar wrote: »

Yes I love to see the little fledglings coming into the garden to eat, juv robins look like miniture thrushes to me ........Ive got a garden full of, greenfinches, chaffinches, sparrow,.and goldfinches, they really are battering my food bins, but I love to see them all come on to the feeders....................The bird food costs a fortune though...........QUOTE]:T Yes, that's exactly what I thought about the juvenile robin which was following me all over the allotment on Monday, just like a pint-sized thrush! I wasn't 100% sure what it was so I borrowed a birding book from SuperGran and then pottered on the web and found a dead-ringer for it and it was a juv robin. Such a wee sweetie with those huge eyes.........awww. Know what you mean, B&T, about going crazy if you can't identify something.

Quick Q; I've been trying to get a good look at a bird which sings on the lottie and also along the cycle path and can't get a fix on it. It sings a two-note call, in runs of anything from 2 to 7 repeats, but most often 4 repeats. Sort of dee-do, dee-do. It can't be very big or brightly-coloured as it sits in small trees and is virtually invisible. Another Little Brown Job. Driving me spare, does anyone know which bird calls like this?

Not knowing is driving me even nuttier than usual!:o

Been to the salt mine today then went to the shop wot Mums go to, IYKWIM, and the eggs have gone up 25% since last week. And the FB pies are up 50%. Horrific, and me with less than 20 in the stash. I scalded off to £land and got another 6 just to feel safe. You know where you are with an FB pie.*

I'm very very weary this week so must get to bed at a reasonable hour. Any news from ginny and I haven't seen byatt posting lately, is she OK as far as we know?

I'm a wee bit jealous of you Mancunians being able to have a mini-meet. Have a great time.

Laters, GQ x

* In the pharmacy buying antacid preparations, probably.;)

Mrs_Chip

Listen to the call on this page GQ - is that it?

Mrs_Chip

Or this one ?

mardatha

It sounds like a great tit - we have them. Two tone over and over.

Mrs_Chip

Well spotted Mar, we have got hundreds of the blighters, and I could not place it!

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

It sounds like a great tit - we have them. Two tone over and over.

:j Oh, you absolute angels! It's the great tit all right!!!

Blimming heck, that has been frustrating me for more than a year. What a fantabulous website, I'm bookmarking that right away.

AM SOOOOO CHUFFED, thank you both!!! :j

Mrs_Chip

Not me - Mar got it bang to rights - but that is a handy site for irritating birdy calls!

VJsmum

Ooh I am a grump tonight. No idea why - it's not hormones, work or family issues. It's just one of those "I am in a bad mood and i'm bl00dy well going to enjoy it" things.:D

I had a beer :beer: - that's given me the yawns.

I'm not good with birds - can just about tell a magpie from a pigeon. Wish I did know though. We have a couple of bird tables but I think they've all been scared off by "boy with ball" syndrome :rotfl: - it's really not safe in our garden for our feathered friends, and that's without the neighbourhood cats that visit - one of which made me jump out of my skin while hanging the washing out this afternoon - he kind of "jumped" out of the hedge commando style, saw me, we both went :eek: and he scarpered. I didn't know I could make a noise like that.

DD is training for RADA - pretending to be iller than she actually is which is getting on my t!ts of the non feathered variety. She is a bit under the weather but nowehere near as bad as she is making out. OH falls for it every time and I have to remind him that RADA isn't that far fetched an idea for her. She will miraculously recover tomorrow as I won't let her go to drama class if she isn't well.

Ah well - back to the marking, hmm I think I have found the cause of the grump.

SDG31000

Hello Everyone

Well due to the medium of facebook we have found out how our friend is doing. The good news is that he doesn't have lung cancer, but the bad news is that he does have colon and liver cancer Now we wait until next week to see what the Drs say. I just wish there was something we could do to help. There are times when being an atheist is a pain, as if I believed in a higher power, I could at least pray. I'll just have to settle for hoping for the best possible outcome.

I still haven't made it out of the house, but I will be going out tomorrow as DS2 has a meeting at school. They are taking him to London on a reward trip next week. I'm slightly jealous of him getting to go to the Olympic Aquatic Centre. I've got DH to agree to a date night as consolation.

Dinner tonight was an experiment as I'd run out of rice, wraps and eggs. So we ended up with chilli nacho pizza. As experiments go it was a good one, but I think the chilli needed to be more tomatoey. One to try again I think.

Night everyone xxxx