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Tag Archives: birds
Chicks Chicks Chicks!
I keep hens because they lay lovely eggs. I love that I have beautiful yellow yolked eggs whenever I want them, I never need to worry about the condition of the hens producing them, because I can look out the … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, chicks, cute, eggs, garden, henkeeping, hens, pets, poultry, silkie, springtime
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Big Garden Birdwatch 2014
I like to do the big garden bird watch every year and this year was no different. I saw a selection of the birds that are in the garden on a regular basis. I probably saw more Chaffinches than recorded … Continue reading
There’s a wagtail in the woodshed
Honestly there is. Earlier today I was moving some bits of wood around when suddenly a wagtail flew out. Our woodshed used to be some kind of agricultural cow related building and has little feeding troughs in it. I hadn’t … Continue reading
Quail chicks!
When I told people I’d bought 12 quail eggs off ebay to hatch they laughed. As I signed for the little (heavily wrapped) package the postman actually told me it would never work. To an extent I could understand them … Continue reading
Preparing the raised beds
It’s a sunny day, its March and the time has come to really make an impression on the garden. I’ve had all sorts of plans coming and going about what I’m going to do with the place but now its … Continue reading
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Tagged alan titchmarsh, birds, garden, gardening, nature, niger seed, plants, trees
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A Second Brood of Sparrow chicks
For the first time today (or the fist time that I have noticed) another little brood of sparrow chicks have emerged from the nest. They very sweetly sit on the branches around the feeders and wait for a parent to … Continue reading
Baby garden birds
As well as the fruit and veg beginning to show in abundance so too are our little feathered guests. Sparrows have colonised the roof, great tits have begun flying in flocks and the incessant cheeping is enough to make the … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, dunnock, garden, garden birds, greenfinch, song birds, wildlife
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Found them!
After almost a week of searching I finally found the ospreys! Walking along the North bank of Loch Insh I saw a couple with cameras and binoculars looking very deliberately in a fixed direction. I could hear bag pipes playing … Continue reading
This week in Aviemore
It’s been over a year since I was last in Aviemore, my boyfriend and I had left our cottage on the West coast at 1am and driven through the early hours to see the Capercaillie lekking. Magnificent as it was … Continue reading
“Garden Guests”
I’ve been feeding the little dicky birds in the garden since last autumn and all through the difficult winter, so I now have a reliable incoming of cheepers, mostly sparrows, blue tits and chaffinchs with the occasional reed bunting and … Continue reading
Letters From A Lodge Cook 