Well, spring has sprung, not that you would know it by the temperature - help ma boab, but it's cold! The only reason we bears know it is spring is because the baby starlings are coming into the garden to be fed by their overworked parents. We are only allowed to watch them from the window - we have been told in no uncertain terms that catching baby birds is BAD and if caught, we will get smacked bottoms :-( So we sit and watch and drool.
We also have a sweet little black squirrel who comes into the garden. At first we thought he was a black rat (yikes - black death, plague and pestilence!) but discovered that he is a little squirrel with a deformed or non-existent tail. He's actually very sweet, but not too bright as he can't work out how to open the nut box.
Other wildlife includes our charm of goldfinches, greenfinches, chaffinches, a few blackbirds, some robins, sparrows, blue and coal tits, a woodpecker, some jays and a sparrow-hawk or falcon. Never a dull moment in our back garden, let me tell you!
The photograph is of Bill and myself enjoying our afternoon in the garden. I think I look rather like Ernest Hemmingway - all I need is the gin and tonic :-)
We also have a sweet little black squirrel who comes into the garden. At first we thought he was a black rat (yikes - black death, plague and pestilence!) but discovered that he is a little squirrel with a deformed or non-existent tail. He's actually very sweet, but not too bright as he can't work out how to open the nut box.
Other wildlife includes our charm of goldfinches, greenfinches, chaffinches, a few blackbirds, some robins, sparrows, blue and coal tits, a woodpecker, some jays and a sparrow-hawk or falcon. Never a dull moment in our back garden, let me tell you!
The photograph is of Bill and myself enjoying our afternoon in the garden. I think I look rather like Ernest Hemmingway - all I need is the gin and tonic :-)
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