Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Holiday home though .... so just today, then gone until "god knows when". He said he wasn't sure when they'd get to use it, but they'd decided to buy one anyway instead of just putting it off.

See, I live in such a desirable area that people are happy to buy houses and leave them empty

Apparently it wasn't the area it was the neighbours that sold it....

GDB2222

One day you'll get old and order a new ADSL router from Amazon, then just as you are about to unwrap it remember that you bought one a couple of years ago 'just in case'. So, I installed the just in case one, and the new one has to go back to Amazon.

Edit: I can see why I got it 'just in case', as it was only £7, including a spare USB wifi dongle.

oldandhappy

no idea what I am doing really but was trying to direct post a picture.

oldandhappy

yes its our garden and that is the new pond and then slabs got picked up and then plants and stones added and so on....I shall not make this ...here are my exciting holiday photos saga that you are all dying too not see...ok. Best Wishes Dianne

chris_m

Well I'm not going to post a pic of what I've been up to, because it looks a mess - but I think I've finally won a battle, so it does at least appear to work.

Been having trouble with a mob of starlings scaring the smaller birds off my bird feeder then emptying it, greedy so-and-so's. It was a fairly ordinary one with perches supposedly too small for large birds but that didn't stop them. Oh no, they just hung underneath and reached up to nick the finches food :mad:

While I was up at the garden centre yesterday I saw a feeder that was described as being squirrel and starling proof - a normal feeder inside a cage. Twas only £6 so I bought it. No joy at all, the starlings have long enough necks and beaks they just tucked in even more comfortably than before :mad:

I tried blocking some of the gaps with string but they could still reach the food, unless I closed it off so tightly that the smaller birds couldn't get in either. Then I remembered, amongst the junk I "inherited" down the greenhouse were a couple of rolls of chicken wire, so I've attached two looping "sheets" of it to the feeder and the goldies & sparrows have been feeding happily (once they worked out what I'd done) so the other finches and the tits should be OK too.

However, the flippin' starlings have, so far, been completely flummoxed, hooray :T

And I'm amazed that one word in the last but one paragraph didn't get censored !!!!

oldandhappy

well done you for making such effort....ours is in view now and many blue and green tits baby sparrows the blackbirds will arrive later... and often our chickens under the feeder eating what is dropped on the grass....chickens actually eat all day...sunny today...horray

chris_m

It's become a bit of a battle of wits - which I am determined not to lose

A greenfinch has just visited and eventually worked out how to get to the seeds, that's about the largest species that I anticipate visiting and being welcome. I've currently got about eight goldfinches bickering away over whose turn it is

The starlings have been coming in but eventually giving up . It's been quite amusing watching them try though. Occasionally one lands on the windowsill instead and all I can see is its head - beak apart it's very reminiscent of some of the velociraptor scenes in Jurassic park

silvercar

If it makes you feel any better, it is raining in Mauritius!

hjd

Nice and sunny in my corner of Outer Herts this morning!

chris_m

Cloudy in South Cumbria