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Boyfriend donates his fur
I have put the combings from his Zoom Grooming today out - in a little
basket that usually hold a suet block during the winter - for the birdies to line their nests with. I usually remember to do this a bit earlier, but it has been such a bad, rainy, cold spring that I am hoping the birds who like cat fur for their nests (the blue tits and great tits, like chickadees) have held off from nesting. If they haven't their broods are doomed - it's so cold that there are not many insects around yet and the birds depend on them to feed their babies. It was 10C today, around 50F. Wettest April since records began in the 1830's. May is usually my favourite month but is cold and cloudy. I still have to put a blanket around my knees if I sit down to watch TV. This suits Boyfriend. Now he knows it is not dangerous to sit on my knee, he wants to do it all the time. And he likes to knead before he lies down. Tina |
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"Christina Websell" wrote:
I have put the combings from his Zoom Grooming today out - in a little basket that usually hold a suet block during the winter - for the birdies to line their nests with. I usually remember to do this a bit earlier, but it has been such a bad, rainy, cold spring that I am hoping the birds who like cat fur for their nests (the blue tits and great tits, like chickadees) have held off from nesting. If they haven't their broods are doomed - it's so cold that there are not many insects around yet and the birds depend on them to feed their babies. It was 10C today, around 50F. Wettest April since records began in the 1830's. May is usually my favourite month but is cold and cloudy. I still have to put a blanket around my knees if I sit down to watch TV. This suits Boyfriend. Now he knows it is not dangerous to sit on my knee, he wants to do it all the time. And he likes to knead before he lies down. Tina I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- Adrian |
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"Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed I've seen young greenfinches today, now I'm waiting for the hedgehog to put in an appearance. -- Adrian |
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Hedgehogs (was Boyfriend donates his fur)
"Adrian" wrote in message
... ... I've seen young greenfinches today, now I'm waiting for the hedgehog to put in an appearance. Plenty of hedgepigs, and other wildlife, he http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/ :-) -- MatSav |
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"Adrian" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote: "Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed I've seen young greenfinches today, now I'm waiting for the hedgehog to put in an appearance. -- Adrian I haven't had hedgehogs for a while. Two of my neighbours say they have seen badgers in their gardens recently so that might be why. Luckily my chickens are in almost nuclear-attack proof huts and runs now. Nothing can dig into them as there are concrete slabs, the huts are lined with steel sheets, the sides of the runs are very strong weldmesh and there is a roof on. Badgers are so strong they can rip their way into a wooden chicken hut overnight and don't think they won't. Free range is long gone from here. Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote: "Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed I've seen young greenfinches today, now I'm waiting for the hedgehog to put in an appearance. -- Adrian I haven't had hedgehogs for a while. Two of my neighbours say they have seen badgers in their gardens recently so that might be why. Luckily my chickens are in almost nuclear-attack proof huts and runs now. Nothing can dig into them as there are concrete slabs, the huts are lined with steel sheets, the sides of the runs are very strong weldmesh and there is a roof on. Badgers are so strong they can rip their way into a wooden chicken hut overnight and don't think they won't. Free range is long gone from here. Tweed I've heard that badgers can be worse than foxes for attacking chickens, a farm I visited a couple of years ago had badgers break into their chicken hut. The hedgehog came round just before ten, ate some sunflower hearts the birds had dropped, then departed at quite a lick. It's surprising how fast they can move. -- Adrian |
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we are to have in the 80's f today and all the way to 100 f by monday
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed |
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Boyfriend donates his fur
It was 24c in my house at 9 p.m. today and this a cold house normally.
We are not likely to get anywhere near 100f, this would be a near record temperature for Britain, which has a climate peculiar to itself. It's unlikely to stay as hot as is now for more than a few days, it usually results in a thunderstorm "Storrmmee" wrote in message ... we are to have in the 80's f today and all the way to 100 f by monday "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... I haven't seen any young blue tits or great tits yet, I have seen young blackbirds, thrushes, robins & goldfinches. There's a starlings nest in the roof and I expect them to fledge any day now. -- I haven't seen any blue or great tit youngsters either this year. Boyfie's fur has all been taken now so maybe they delayed nesting. I had a starlings nest in my roof last year but not this year. From 10C when I originally posted it is now scorchio. 25C this afternoon! Tweed |
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Boyfriend donates his fur
i have tried to do it in the past but i guess our birds are nest snobs, lol,
Lee "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... I have put the combings from his Zoom Grooming today out - in a little basket that usually hold a suet block during the winter - for the birdies to line their nests with. I usually remember to do this a bit earlier, but it has been such a bad, rainy, cold spring that I am hoping the birds who like cat fur for their nests (the blue tits and great tits, like chickadees) have held off from nesting. If they haven't their broods are doomed - it's so cold that there are not many insects around yet and the birds depend on them to feed their babies. It was 10C today, around 50F. Wettest April since records began in the 1830's. May is usually my favourite month but is cold and cloudy. I still have to put a blanket around my knees if I sit down to watch TV. This suits Boyfriend. Now he knows it is not dangerous to sit on my knee, he wants to do it all the time. And he likes to knead before he lies down. Tina |
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