Look who's just popped alongside my wellies for a nosey around our garage, do you think he/she's looking for a new nesting ! 22/4/20 time 11.35am
Sorry Admin ...its not liver related but thought it would cheer everyones morning up !
Love Trish
PS ...Derek's wine .....
Hello ShropshireLass2019,
What a lovely wee robin !!! So much more visible wildlife just now !
( ps - we are not THAT bad are we)
Trust9
Cheers for note Trust 9! No definately not but I wanted to apologise out of politeness!'
I think the Robin likes our garage as its flown in a few more times whilst we were eating lunch !
Trish
Lunch in your garage - do you need a sun shade?
Maybe ....broke the last one 👎😪
Is that a thing now?
Well it is at Trish’s apparently 😀 - must be the lock down - or is that lock up - or should be maybe 😀
Or with that wine...lock in?!
If you drank that wine there’d be somewhere you would have to lock yourself in for a long while - and it wouldn’t be the garage....Phew (or some such rhyming word) 😀...TMI sorry!
Poor Derek 😕 - is it ageing or aged 😀
It's well aged Miles ......2009! 👎👎
I could say something here....🤣
Go on then, go on, go on, go on....ooops that father ted isn’t it.....
Such fun!! (Miranda!)
Oh Trish, i love Robin's. Thats a lovely photo. He/She could be looking for a new nesting place, as you said.
We've had quite a few Robin's around here lately,but we didn't know where they were nesting. Then yesterday my Hubby was talking to a neighbour across the road ( at a safe distance ).
Our Neighbour has a Robin's Nest underneath his Car Port.
He said his car is covered in Poop, But he don't mind,because he Loves Robin's as well. A few years ago we had a nest of House Martins underneath our Car Port,
Every time we went out, we had to duck .
They are so quick. They were like the Kamikaze.
Hey Trish,I like your Wellies.
Love. Glo.xx
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Cheers ...I love my wellies Glo!
There are more photo's on my FB page taken this morning with a tiny video of one of my two squirrels who I've called Laura and Hardy running up and down one of the trees at the back of my garden! You'd have to look closely thou !
Oh well more gardening ....
Lucky neighbour .......
Love to you and John xxx💓
I bet that you Love doing the gardening with all that going on.
You picked 2 nice names for the squirrels in your garden. Lucky You.
Yeah ,my neighbour is lucky as well.
Love ❤.To you as well Trish.
Take Care and Stay Safe Glo XXXX
I guess so Glo ! I'm now about to strim the lawn edges as I like neat... Derek never ever does it but that's him ! Maybe I have a little OCD as I like straight lines ..same with picture frames !,😉
Trish ,I think most men are all the same when it comes to strimming the Lawn edges. They leave them as wonky as a Donkeys hind Leg.
I don't like out of line Picture Frames either..They really irritate me..😚
Great photo Trish.
He could be looking for a nest site, but more probably food for his chicks
Trust you to have spotty wellies😊😊😊
David
Didn’t she tell you, David, they her bessies....
Miles, in my time it was Hunters, don't you know 👢👢👢
David
Em!!! Hunters nice! Mine are just Joules which are still nice ....well to me they are ! 😉
Oh Crikey. not another Joules fan😥👿
David
Really ....your joking ....Annie ? Well bless her cotton socks ! Lol🤣
Ps! Typing error corrected ...best ...bless
Your so right Miles, my besties along with my cowboy boots 👩🌾👢
Ah besties 😊😊😊, I was wondering what bessies were, but didn't like to ask. Now Aunt Bessies.....😋😋😋
David
Miles, did you mean besties, or have I missed something 😉😉😉
David
No -I mean like bessie eva friend
You've lost me ...I even asked Derek?
Ahh you need to keep up Trish 😀. <joke before anyone tells me off!> . Google it - urban dictionary lol -must be because of my GC laughing about it!...
Like David wondered , you did mean besties ? 🤔
Nooo - see David -he’ll tell you 😀
I think your right David, I must be careful when locking up the garage tonight! 🤔
Trish
Yes, the chicks will need feeding dawn to dusk.
Really....What's the best food to put out? My bird seeds not arriving for another 2 weeks grrr!
Maybe dig up a few words??
Trish, no seed for chicks at nesting time. I scrunch up a fat ball with a sharp knife, like peeling an apple, and make sure there are no big bits that might choke a wee chick, or if you have any mealworms 😋😋😋 they are top notch. I've just put some out for my Robin, to keep them going through the night😊
David
Words ( worms)🤣🤣🤣, are great, but chop them up into chick sized pieces. Soapy water on the lawn will have them scrambling to the surface. 🐍🐍🐍
That’s a bit mean David 😕....poor wordies or is that wormies 😀
Thanks David for your guidance! I'm glad I like to fish so not bothered about chopping worms up!
Adore you cute green worms 👍🙂
I love him! We have at the moment, blue tits, great tits, goldfinches, green finches, nutter starling families, sparrows and those long tailed tits. They eat better than we do!
Wow Owlie, thats a good variety......have you thought of opening a bird sanctuary 😊😊😊
David
I keep feeding them, I love animals and they are all my babies, I name them and everything! Unfortunately I have been fighting a magpie which has appeared since we trimmed the hedge as we have several nests. Didn’t see him today but hoping he didn’t get the babies. I have been shooting him away when I see him. They eat better than we do as they only like certain makes of food!!
Hi Owlie, just put out the feeders, and Bob, my oh so friendly Robin, came to the feeder before I had even put it back on the hook. He grabbed a beakful of scrunched up fatball, and flew up the garden to our gazebo seat, and there, waiting for him was a wee chick.....so happy to see that😊
We have Magpies and Jackdaws, both of whom will take chicks, given half a chance. I just send Teddy up the garden to chase them off. I think you mean't shooing, not shooting them away.
David
Such a beautiful start to your morning David , I'm so happy for you and of course Bob who I bet was singing away with happiness !
🙂
We could go into business Owlie as we too have a similar variety plus magpies and a couple of buzzards keep flying over head ....
I want some chickens as well, have seen some really cute ones!
Ah! Lovely! I used to have 5 rescue's named Popeye, Olive Oil, Houdini,
Twister and Pegleg all died of old age after giving lots of funny pleasure!
Would I have more...nope!
😊 x
PS ... only one Robin has appeared twice today so no idea what's happening on the nesting in the garage front😔 However still have another pair at the rear of the garden
We used to have 2 chickens visit named Parsley and Thyme.
Thyme was very gentle and would be happily alongside us when we were weeding pecking at the worms and grubs. Parsley was a different story, she was very confrontational and had huge feet that went about the garden on a rampage scratching up flowers and plants.
My wife had to chase her off with a brush and parsley even used to fight the brush and also try to get round the brush to have a go at my wife.
So beware, they are not all cuties! 
Funny you should raise the subject of the different personalities your two chickens Alf
We had to renamed one of our chickens to Houdini because he had a great knack of escaping and flying over 6 foot high hedge into a heavily overgrown wooded bushed area. I can remember one particular day when I had to dress myself in full PPE clothing including safety glasses and gloves before crawling on my hands and knees through the bushes and wooded branches to drag Houdini out ! At one point I actually got my legs tangled which to be honest wasnt funny at the time.
Popeye and Olive Oil were always
digging deep holes in all the flower beds but to be truthful I loved em to bits!'Pegleg was always visiting me in the kitchen whilst Twisted sat on the window cill looking in....
So Owlie be aware they can be mischievous and they do require a lot of care plus large enclosed run with chicken pen which requires lots of cleaning out and warmth in the winter months. I wish you well!
Thanks Alf for sharing your story!
😊
I don’t know if I am allowed to post a photo on here but if you google Silkie, they are the ones I like!
Very nice indeed ..spotty piglets 🙂!
They are the chickens!
Imagine a cross 
Cross chickens?
With spotty piglets
Ohhhhhh cross breeds! Crotties!!
It was one very cross chicken that my wife used to chase with a brush!
Now I have an excellent name for that...Dinner!! 😁👍
God I’m good today! 🤣
Not as good as that chicken crossed with a spotty pig would be! LOL
I’ll let you have that one Alf! 👍😉
Fat balls and mealiworms ordered! 2 robins have moved into the garage and we beleave are now nesting in an old wicker cd racks in the corner ! Our garage camera has been re ajusted so that we can see them flying in and out through the window which they've been doing all morning... ahhhh
Thursday 23rd ....
PS we're going to see if we can transfer some photos from camera onto my FB page as things progress.
Wow Trish, that's great news, you are very blessed. My Robins are nesting in my neighbours hedge, even though I put up a Robin nest box, and my feeders are their "go to" restaurant. As compensation, I have seen a pair of goldfinches showing interest in the Robin nest box, so.......fingers crossed🤞🤞.
I also saw a Jenny Wren this morning, looking for food. She took a mealworm, and flew into the shrub border, so, may be nesting there 🤞🤞
David
It all sounds fabulous news on all of the our nature reserves ! Dereks just ordered a new camera for the garage so that we can get better photo's🤣🤣... My Robins are called Romeo and Juliet
Trish
Great names Trish. When I lived in Oxfordshire, I had an open garage, and I used to get swallows nest up in the eaves every year. I carved a sign that sad "Swallows Rest" for the beam on the garage.
David
That's so lovely and I bet it's still there ! 💓
I doubt it's still there. I also carved a house name sign "Trevalyan" for the gates, and they renamed the house Greenacres. Trevalyan was my Kennel Club registered breeders name, used on the pedigree of puppies I bred.
David
Last summer I met a wonderful lady called Linda Summerell whilst visiting my daughters local pub. Immediately we realised there was a bond between us and have become close friends! This morning from out of the blue I received a small book of poems that belonged to her dad! The books called "A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman." First edition published in 1896....this copy is dated 1923...almost 100 years old! Such a beautiful gift to have received which I shall now enjoy reading this afternoon.
Here's the first poem I read....
I heard the tune he sang me,
And spied his yellow bill;
I picked a stone and aimed it
And threw it with a will.
Then my soul within me
Took up the blackbirds strain
And still beside the horses
Along the dewy lane
It sang the song again:
"Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
The sun moves always west;
The road one treads to labour
Will lead one home to rest
And that will be the best!
Hope you enjoy!
Love Trish x
We're now watching on our TV Romeo & Juliet building there nest within a two story wicker CD rack stored in.the corner of our garage! Ah ......
I need to get cameras so I can watch the birdies...
Great idea Alex! Ours were just for security but now entertainment 😉👍
Thank you lovelies! Ultrasound Elastography? Anybody had one? 
Owlie! This is for You ! 
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