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dpack

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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 18 2:04 pm Post subject: today's visitor, today's update
a very well dressed bullfinch Last edited by dpack on Tue Jan 30, 18 2:41 pm; edited 1 time in total

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 18 5:35 pm Post subject:
They are the smartest birds around, I often think, Henry

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 18 9:44 pm Post subject:
through a grubby window

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 18 8:07 am Post subject:
Nice. We have had a greater spotted woodpecker and two long tailed tits on our bird feeder recently. Didn't know either of them ate peanuts, but they were there. Something else odd I saw at the weekend; pigeons eating ham. I thought they were seed eaters. If they are omnivores, why don't they eat the slugs in my garden?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 18 10:10 am Post subject:
You eat ham? You eat slugs?

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 18 11:32 am Post subject:
Nice picture DPack. Not often you see those guys are our way.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 18 2:39 pm Post subject:
today a friend popped round it is always nice to say hello ren.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 18 2:44 pm Post subject:
yes that really is a tomato outside in york peeping from behind the pipe in january, the randoms are ace at rot proof although vile to eat.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 18 8:28 am Post subject:
I don't eat ham that has been knocking around on the ground in a shopping centre Nick, and some people do eat slugs if they are follow some up market chefs. Nice picture of the wren Dpack. Haven't seen or heard any recently, but did hear a thrush and a woodpecker in the woods yesterday.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 18 5:37 pm Post subject:
the little beasty was looking a bit chilled as it tried to work out where to go. anyway a quick warm in a hand and it was tucked into an improvised toad hall in the yard with a nice slug dinner .

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 18 7:10 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 18 8:05 am Post subject:
Good use for slugs. I thought toads hibernated during the winter.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 18 10:31 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Good use for slugs. I thought toads hibernated during the winter.

They do, generally, but like most other hibernating creatures, they can get disturbed by a variety of things, and have to move around to find a better place.

Henry

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 18 12:08 pm Post subject:
as mentioned they do but a warm day, such as we had, can wake them up ( along with their lunch) and if it drops chilly before they are back in toad hall or a nice hotel they can be in trouble. this little beast was very much running cold and moving in slowmo.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 18 3:14 pm Post subject:
Yes - a warm day was mentally included in 'a variety of things'. Henry

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