hug for Cher

No embarrassment caused at all, just broad smiles from broad ladies......LOL

Els

I know, I know! (she said, not so modestly while taking a bow and patting herself on the back) LOL Just kidding!

When I used to chat online and came out with some *ahem*, shall we say ODD things.... some of my friends used to say I was speaking Geminese! LOL

Gem

Oh and also Els, that airforce blue weaving yarn arrived today, and I did a few picks with it, think this is the answer...it may be just a shade lighter than I would have liked, but it looks much better now on the throw than the brown did.....thanks for your help with this....cheers..Cher

ladies......LOL

I thought he was going to be a little mouse too, Cher! LOL

Gem

LOL ...that's a good one Gem....

Hey Cher, I have a cousin in England with the last name of Fagg. I know that it has been known to mean "cigarette" in England, but it sure doesn't mean that over here. So when she and her husband where coming to Canada I warned them in advance what it meant just in case they heard giggling from anyone. ;o)

Gem

No embarrassment at all! I'm a bird friend, and must admit, I've not heard of a Great Tit. A titmouse, yes.... heh, heh. I've learned something new today, plus you probably think I have a dirty mind (grin).

Thanks for the link - it's a very pretty bird!

Shelagh

There was a childrens set of story books, not sure who by, they may have been by Beatrice Potter, I never read any, but they often had something in the title of them like ''Thomas Titmouse''' and cos she wrote about squirrels and hedgehogs and fieldmice for children, I naturally conjured up this image of a Tufted Titmouse as a mouse...lol

Mind you I don't know why, as I call all the tit families Mr and Mrs Thomas Tit....lol

These birds that are nesting though, must be worn out by now, they have kept up a pace going back and forth to the nest with insects for the young....poor little things, They both go to the nut feeder for the odd peanut and thus some extra energy boosting fibre...aww they are so cute.....couple more days and the nest box will be empty and silent, then I'll get all sorts of other birds into the garden, Mr and Mrs Blackbird with two juniors will come for their grapes, and the ring neck wood pidgeons will waddle up and down the fence, I call this pair Wallace and Gromit....lol. The hedgehog will soon have her young out in the garden at night snuffling about....what a racket they flipping make too....lol

I love the birdsong early in the morning, but I like all nature, foxes hedgehogs and I have at teh moment one mouthy frog at the edge of one of my ponds shouting for a mate for all he's worth.....drives ya nuts all day long.....lol

The only bird I'm not very happy with at the moment is the Heron, he's been and had all but two of my pond ornamental fish, nature is somewhat a bit cruel at times...but guess we are the same to feed..

cheers..Cher

lol...we also say Butt End....means the end bit of a cigarette...lol wonder how our interpretations got muddled up.......lol

We also have a pond and to keep the herons out, we stretch a black netting across the pond and anchor it with rocks. You can't see it unless you're up close and it keeps the koi and goldfish safe.

It's a bit early yet, but we will get goldfinches (my favourites), ruby throat hummingbirds, northern orioles, flickers (already here), robins (also here). We also have woodpeckers,crows, ravens, magpies, blue jays, black capped chickadees, various sparrows, and way too many red-winged blackbirds. I adore the chickadees, and they're here all year long.

Last year we found some HUGE leopard frogs in our bigger pond. HUGE!! You should hear them! Their tadpoles are enormous. We also have (I think) wood frogs - they are bright green with sticky pads on their feet. We are fortunate to be out in a rural area and can enjoy nature. Don't like mosquitoes though. We screened in our porch to get away from them.

Shelagh

Aww how nice of you to feed them all. We put bread out for the birds and when I'm in the city I go to the park and feed the ducks and Canada geese too (thankfully there is a store where I can buy cheaper bread to feed them). Last year there was one duck that had me laughing... but he won my heart for sure. He was literally jumping up and down like a little excited kid about to get a treat. hehehe

Oh speaking of geese... I heard the tail end of something on the news today about some horrible guy who kicked a mother goose and her goslings to death, because she hissed at him. Can you imagine? I was so furious, he is very lucky that I was nowhere nearby or I would have totally flipped out on him and been giving him a taste of his own medicine. I honestly don't know how some people can be so cruel to animals. It just breaks my heart.

PS I didn't realize that hedgehogs even made a sound. But then I didn't know that rabbits could make sounds either until one day when I went to move an injured one into a shoebox to bring home for my Dad to make better (he did too)... the poor little thing let go with a loud piercing scream that could make your blood turn cold. He eventually got stronger and slipped away from the garage during the night.

Last year (haven't seen him yet this year) while I was sitting on the back porch I heard this very pretty song and after searching a bit I spotted a gorgeous orange oriole high in the tree at the back of the yard. I went to the door and called Matthew and we just sat out there for the longest time just watching and listening to him singing away.

One afternoon last week when we got back to the house I heard a familiar song going on and looked around... there on our tv antenna was a pair of cardinals singing very loudly. :o)

Gem

Our next-door neighbors have had to do that (put up netting to keep their pond fish safe); only today we saw a huge great blue heron stalking around the pond looking balefully at what he no doubt thought should be his lunch!

CHer, I read all of the Beatrix Potter books, and still have many of them, so I knew what a titmouse was.

Kather> There was a childrens set of story books, not sure who by, they may

Way to go, send a picture of the finished piece please

Els

Everybody ,, you should be here ,,, my window is open and the Morning symphony of My garden birds is in FULL volume ,,, Wild turtle in the lead now , Hoot- hoot hoot-hoot , little Sparrow Tsif tsif tsif tsiiiiiiiiif, Hoot hoot , tsif ,,,, raven kraaaaaakraaaaa, hoot hoot kraaaaaa, a Honey sucker phe phe phe pheeeeee Hoot hoot tsif tsifffff, phe phe ,,, song thrush Phe-u phe-u-u a Hoot hoot tsif tsif ,,, Everybody ,,, HAlleu JAH Morning is here , we are busy to find our food ... Kraaa hoot Tsif Pheuuuu AAAAAA mirjam ...

Mirjam - you are amazing! I can just imagine those birds... and you singing with them ;>)

Shelagh

OH Goodness Gem, that is dreadful, poor goose, we had an episode similar to this with a pair of swans, some idiot took a pellet gun and shot the female, poor thing died, and her mate was so distraught, we called in the wild life again as time went on, as there was no other mate available for him, and they mate for life, and he kept going to other pairs and getting into trouble, anyway the people cameout and took him to a place where they know of some single females for him. I don't understand the mentality of it all either Gem, The kids were caught and procecuted for mis use of a fire arm, and having no licence for one, and endangering peoples lives, and for some act against wild life.....but being so young they got community service as their sentence, now that just means they have to obey a curfew law, and report to do so many hours community work....I think the parents ought to be charged, what were kids doing with a firearm in the first place, our guns over here are just game keeping guns, if the parents didn't know they had the use of one, the flipping\ should have done.

Hedgehogs, oh yes, they get in the bushes of a night snuffling and grunting like pigs looking for slugs and snails...trundling about, in the dark it can give you quite a fright....lol

cheers......Cher

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