Partridge......not in a pear tree
Posted by: JJB - 04-06-2020, 09:20 PM - No Replies

Another, or maybe the same, partridge on nextdoor's roof ridge.  Got a pic this time.  Not a good one as the zoom on my tablet isn't great.

   

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  Something attacked my onion seedlings
Posted by: Can the Man - 04-06-2020, 08:00 PM - Replies (14)

I planted some red onion seedlings in among some white onion seedlings which had established themselves last Monday only to find this evening they have been attacked by something either bird or animal.
They even managed to dislodge the name tag.

I will post photos in a few minutes when I resize

This is how they looked on Monday evening 
   

Here you can see where they have been pulled up and chopped 
   

Here you can see them chopped and on the top left holes where they were pulled out
   

Better close up of the top left
   
Better close up of the chopped plants
   





Anybody ever experienced this before or any ideas ?

Thanks

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  Woodpecker
Posted by: Jimny14 - 04-06-2020, 07:40 PM - Replies (4)

Seen on our bird feeder this evening, sorry about quality of the video

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  Guess who
Posted by: Small chilli - 04-06-2020, 10:39 AM - Replies (32)

A little clue none of them are chickens

   


I’ll announce winners/ answers tomorrow  Big Grin .

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  Round 2
Posted by: Small chilli - 04-06-2020, 10:36 AM - Replies (15)

The second incubator full has started to hatch  Cool .

   

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  Bats
Posted by: Jimny14 - 04-06-2020, 07:57 AM - Replies (5)

Although it wasn't that warm last night I was happy to see some of our local bats out and about. Don't know what type of bats they are but we often get quite a lot hunting over our garden. 
I'd ideally like to find out what they are and see if there is anything we can do to help with boxes etc. 

I'll try and post a video I took last night but might take me a while to sort it out.

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  Covered in bees!
Posted by: Eyren - 03-06-2020, 09:36 PM - Replies (4)

(Why yes, I am a fan of Eddie Izzard...)

The only place in my garden that attracts bees at the moment is a monstrous pyrocantha that hums like a hive in the sunlight but is too tall for me to get photos. However here are some other bee pics from last year:

This, I think, is a red mason bee, taken in late March last year. I have some red mason bee cocoons coming next spring to release into my garden, so I need to plant some spring flowers for them!

   

And from July last year, a honeybee on viper's bugloss - I just planted a couple of these wildflowers in my front garden.

   

Both taken with an iPhone 7 Plus, using the Camera+ app's macro function.

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  They seek her here, they seek her there...
Posted by: Eyren - 03-06-2020, 09:20 PM - Replies (16)

This group is proving as elusive as my avatar! (which is a Scarlet Pimpernel, in case you hadn't guessed from my thread title)

Hello again, folks! Here's hoping we're settled down at last. It feels rather appropriate to be rebooting this group the same summer as I'm rebooting my veggie patch. I'm hoping to have lots of photos of yummy crops to share in coming months!

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  What made you sad today
Posted by: JJB - 03-06-2020, 05:27 PM - Replies (51)

We have a 'happy' thread so I thought we should have a 'sad' thread .  We aren't bubbly and smiling all the time.  This isn't a place to rant about the world but perhaps to air a feeling of less than happy, hopefully it won't be used overmuch. 

Likes on this thread are "sympathy" likes.

I'll start it off:

Out planting in the spitty rain I looked at the pear trees, a conference type and a comice type.  Earlier in the month it looked like the fruit had set ok, then we had a heatwave and drought interspersed with high winds.  Now looking at both trees I can't see a single fruit.  Such a shame.

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  Identify Chilli Plant
Posted by: Can the Man - 03-06-2020, 05:15 PM - Replies (4)

hi I bought 2 of these chillis at the start of lockdown they have both produced loveLy large red chillis about 4” long, they say they are hot but I need about 3-4 for a good curry or chilli con carne.

They have both started producing little white flowers, just wondering if this would help any of our resident chilli experts identify them.

   

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