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« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2010, 05:14:35 PM »
Getting to nesting time again  Cheesy Are you setting up the camera for Mr and Mrs B again Tuppence?

Hope so  Cool
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« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2010, 05:16:27 PM »
Oh Yvonne - how lovely and hope you keep us up to date - well worth the mess in the garden.
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 10:52:15 AM »
Isn't nature wonderful Yvonne  Smiley  Smiley  Smiley....must have been one of the most pleasurable days ever in your garden.
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« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2010, 04:56:22 PM »
Quote from: Morpheus on March 13, 2010, 05:14:35 PM
Getting to nesting time again  Cheesy Are you setting up the camera for Mr and Mrs B again Tuppence?

Hope so  Cool

Our camera is a permanent feature - we have been checking Elvis being "In the Building" every evening at dusk all winter.  Whether he (or she) will bring a mate into his/her place remains to be seen.  I very much hope so.  However, the year before last, the bluetit (also called Elvis) who roosted every night in the box fought off all other birds and blood was spilled on one occasion and we had no nest and babies that year.  Let's keep fingers crossed!
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« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2010, 11:57:54 AM »
I wondered lonely as a fool
Because it's spring  Roll Eyes approaching May  :
I search of hosts of daffodil
A single bud might have a say

I tramped across the sodden lawn
It threatened rain the wind was cold
Then in a corner I did spy
A hidden treasure tub of gold  Smiley

Brave little yellow heads adorning
Like tiny ladies all as one
Quivering gaily in a chorus
"Oh happy day spring has begun"
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« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2010, 01:15:13 PM »
Lovely picture Yvonne. Very cheering for the soul.

The roadsides down here are peppered with daffodils ....seems to be a growing trend to plant them on the outskirts of towns and villages and now they pop up in the hedgerows.  Lots of primroses about too...so delicate, I love them.
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« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2010, 02:04:34 PM »
Loved the poem 'Von  Kiss
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« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2010, 04:07:36 PM »
Aww, lovely poem Yvonne - I think daffodils must be the most rewarding flowers of all - they really do herald spring and are so beautiful in the verges and roundabouts as well as in the gardens.
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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2010, 04:53:49 PM »
That was nice, 'von.
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« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2010, 07:08:42 PM »
Yvonne - Wordsworth would be so proud  Cheesy. 

My daffodils are growing blind this year - loads of foliage but not a flower head in site Sad.  Bought some lovely double headed ones in Marks - only 99p a bunch - so at least they look lovely in a vase and make up for the non flowering ones that I have in pots.
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« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2010, 09:13:30 AM »
We've got one single bluebell in flower at the moment.
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« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2010, 10:37:48 AM »
Thats a nice and early Bluebell, Jan. Do you want any violets, celandines or sycamore seedlings. All on special offer. !000 for the price of 1. Dig your own laugh

Oh, well. I've had my breather. Back to crawling around digging the flipping things up  Sad
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« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2010, 11:00:14 AM »
Jim - thanks for the kind 'offer' but I think I'll pass on this occasion. laugh
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« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2010, 11:47:00 AM »
Aww I'll have some violets Jim, why are you digging them up ? they are pretty little things. I have some pink violets (strange but true)

I took a picture of a Sparrow Hawk the other day which I will try my best to post  Roll Eyes (not too good at the re sizing thingy)
he was sitting by my bird feeder with a sharp eye on next doors feeder, not daft  Wink he was there for about half an hour but he wouldn't turn his head around for me to get a good shot of his face.
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« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2010, 11:57:13 AM »
Lovely photo, Yvonne.  I love birds of prey.  We saw a kestrel hovering right by the roadside yesterday...and loads of buzzards!
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