Posted in General on Aug 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
This wet weather has been bad for holiday makers and bad for harvest and it has made for a very depressing time.
This wet weather has been really good for Thrushes. It’s made it easy for them to ‘dig’ into the soft, wet grass with their beaks and get the ‘lovely food’ they find there. Things [...]
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2008 No Comments »
It is 14 days since the corn was ready for harvesting.
For those fourteen days there have only been 10 hours when they could combine.
We have had 14 days of wet weather. It has not been raining all the time, but when it rains it leaves the corn too wet to harvest. The sun comes out [...]
Posted in General on Aug 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m still having bird feeding problems.
I don’t know if they are really problems. There haven’t been any birds at the two feeders that I hang from the branches of a tree.
I have seen a squirrel there though.
I would have thought that birds would have taken advantage of this covered bird food in all this wet [...]
Posted in General on Aug 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
I have put this in because I’ve just been thinking of how hard this countrywide wet, cold weather will make it for our british birds. This should be summer. We should be having sunny, warm days that we can and enjoy and our wild birds can enjoy as well.
This is a very good, simple recipe that [...]
Posted in General on Aug 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Squirrels - I hate them. Well I hate the grey squirrel. It’s a thug among wild animals.
A question that sometimes comes to mind is - do squirrels ever eat birds. I think they eat birds eggs from nests.
Anyhow, This morning I saw a shadow behind the hanging bird feeder, was it a large bird trying [...]
Posted in General on Aug 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
I think the swallows are getting ready to migrate. They are gathering on the wires near the house.
Yet, there are not as many this year. For the last two years the numbers of swallows seem to have been fewer than in previous years.
It’s hard to count swallows! But the air and sky seem emptier this [...]