A garden full of birds

Well summers come back for a day or two, lots of activity Blue tit, Coal Tit and Great Tit young everywhere even the Woodpeckers and young Jays have been on the feeder today, Oh yes the Electricity pole has been replaced , so the woodpecker has a new perch ( mind you its probably covered with creosote)I have been sat here for a long time to get some pictures of the Redstart that i saw the other day, but maybe there are too many Sheep in the field close to were they feed also the garden is full of all sorts at the moment here's a few I'm off to Pembroke now for a few days hopefully I'll get more shots of the Jays and Woodpeckers when i return

Hot News

Just as I posted the last blog I went out with my camera and spotted a BlueTit going into until now unused nest box we put up 4or 5 years ago why it's never been used can only be because we have a cat house under the tree. The birds must have got used to the cat by now and is not seen as a threat

Woops! here are the missing Pictures

Electric Wooodpeckers

Well its been a long time since I posted having said that the weather here in Snowdonia has been dreadful for the whole month of May ,we've had a bit of drama in next doors garden over the last couple of years Lou's has posted lots of pictures of Spotted Woodpeckers on the Electricity pole next door well, over time their pecking and hammering have caused serious damage to the pole and is so bad that now it has to be replaced! here's a pic of the culprit (not a good image but its all I could get).
Buttercups and all sorts of flowers are now blooming the grass is growing fast with all this rain plus loads of Bee's and Bug's every where I don't have the time to find their names but I'm sure most of you out there do. Finally i've added a picture of "Lou's steps" which she wanted put in last year, I remember telling her it would ruin the lawn... I think I was wrong?

Busy Times

Well it's been a busy month I'm sorry i haven't posted for a while, only time just flies by. There's been lots of action in the garden however i don't have the time and patience that Lou had so I cant seem to get those magic shots ( or it shows how good she was)The blueberry plants are looking good this year we only had a couple of fruit last year, the bluebells are out quite late this year, lots of fly activity on the buttercup flowers whats going on here? Here's a big black slug he looks fit and ready to eat anything that I plant and a picture of Lou's Steps that we put in last year (she always wanted steps), just right for somewhere to sit on a long summers day. and finaly here's some lambs with mum, Lou's loved watching the lambs dancing around in the field.

It must be Spring!

Spring must be here lambs in the field opposite , flowers blooming and the Goldfinches have come back to the garden along with Siskins and all the Tits.Strange things though Lou and I bought a Cream Rhododendron? 12 years ago which only started flowering a couple of years ago mainly due to the fact we kept on moving it around, any way this year its bloomed PINK hows that? seems to have reverted to the common colours we get in Wales How bizarre, We had a warm weekend now gone back to winter quite cold not very conducive to getting the garden ready I suppose I shall have to start getting all the pots and boxes ready for some fruit and veg growing.

The garden is flowering

hi there, well the warmer weather seems to have arrived with the longer evenings. There are lots of plants flowering in the garden Daffodils in full bloom and the currant bushes starting to have leaves and flowers. The woodpecker came back and I caught a picture of him on the stone urn(not a brill photo but least i caught him).I had the chance with the dry weather to give Lou's Summer house a lick of paint and next week maybe the first Mow of the season then the garden will start to get its looks back, a Robin just popped in to say hello as the evenings get longer I will be able to do this blog more justice as I can have more time to capture more of the wildlife that visits us

Woodpeckers arrive

Hey Its not often you get 2 posts in one day bur a Woodpecker suddenly turned up again and i had the camera handy so here's a couple of pix

Long days on there way

This is a great time of year in the garden , lots of plants and flowers starting to sprout, just at the moment we have loads if Siskins on the feeders and I've just missed the first Woodpecker of the year taking peanuts from an old stone urn(Lou wouldn't have missed it i can almost here her cursing me) This was one of Lou's favourite times of year long days starting in a couple of weeks I even saw some new born Lambs yesterday whilst on a bike ride Lou loved the expectancy of there arrival and always got excited.
I know my posts are intermittent but with the onset of the longer evenings i shall more time to spend in the garden

Rising from the ground

Things have started to happen in the garden this week all the Snow drops are out now and he doffodils are starting to shoot up I took some pictures this evening yes after work! (days are getting longer springs around the corner)I,m really looking forward to a couple of dry days so that I can tidy the garden a little and get it back into some sort of shape. Here,s a picture of Lou,s standing stone I,m in a bit of a quandary I may need your help When i first dug this Stone out of the ground Lou said it would make a great headstone for her grave, then when I put it up on the little hill she loved that too , so here,s my problem I agree with her as a headstone fantastic and as a feature in the garden also great so come on all out there help me decide Lou trusted your comments and so do I

The day of the Siskin

Well I'm back from sunny warm Tenerife, back to a storm beaten garden and lots of rain, however tday its been quite settled and a flock? of Siskins decended on the garden. I took loads of photos of them grazing only to realise ( after theyed left i had the camera set wrong (I can here Lou groaning) so they were all blurred, i did manage a couple of shots of them on the feeder and caught this Coal tit on a bush. Everything is starting to sprout all over the place now so there are some exciting times ahead I cant wait. Oh I forgot to mention this female blackbird giving me the eye when i was in the kitchen

First signs of Life

Just a short post before I head of to Tenerife to visit Lou's mum Sandra who like the Swallow migrates to the sun every winter.
Well winters is still with us heavy frosts now followed by normal North wales weather of horizontal rain,a few days ago when we had a hard frost I took a couple of pictures of grazing Chaffinches and a bonus of some plant life just starting to emerge from the earth first signs of new life this year roll on Spring

Wet and Windy back to normal

Well the snows have finally gone and we have returned to our normal winter weather very wet and very windy.
The garden is a mess after the snow so i cant wit till we get some dry weather to tidy, mind you it hasn't stop the birds we have had the usual suspects plus the first visit for a while by two Jays and by the way they behaved they must be a couple of last years chicks as they did not appear as nervous as normal as the generations go by they are getting more and more bold not flying off when i was moving around in there sight. Also we had a visit from a cute little Coal Tit Lou's cousin Lisa took this picture

Snow free New year

Happy New Year to everyone
The snow has finally left us t had covered the garden for the best part of two weeks, and feeding the birds has proved difficult, the one thing the birds require fat, has been frozen solid due to local temperatures going down to -20 one night however the birds have all come back with a vengeance even the lone Pied Wagtail has survived and still looking healthy.
In the next few days I shall go around the garden and take more garden pictures for you . I've added a snowy picture for you

Snows back for Xmas

Well its back with a vengance snow snow snow
we've had so much snow here in North wales and more expected Boxing day, its been a tough time for all the birds in the garden very hard to give them water as it freezes so quickly. We've had the usual mix of birds though thet seem in greater numbers than i can remember in previuos winters especially Blue Tits , I think they had an extra brood this year. We have got one unexpected bird for winter here that is a pied Wagtail (just one ) that seems to have hung around I'll try and get a photo but every time a get the camera out he flies off ( i recall Lou complaining about that happening to her) she would have adored this amount of now and the NARNIA apearance of the area You All have a good Christmas out there in internet world and I'll post again in the New year Al