Garden Watching

I've been spending more time sitting on my back porch - at least when the weather cooperates (it's been rather chilly this week again). I've also been watching and photographing the birds and squirrels that come in the garden. I place peanuts in their shells on a garden post and the different birds and animals have discovered they are there and some come looking almost every day. As a result I have a few photos of them. I've called this collage Over the Garden Fence.

Hope it brings a smile to your face!

For those interested from l-r top row first. Chipmunk, Crow, Red-Winged Blackbird, Northern Cardinal, Black Squirrel, Blue Jay, Red Squirrel, Common Grackle

Wildlife in the Garden

I spend far too much time watching the birds and critters in my garden. Yesterday afternoon I spent too much time watching this chipmunk try to get to the birdfeeder. It must have been new to our feeder because the others would go up the pole and along. This one decided to go up the pole and then try to jump over to the feeder. Sometimes it managed it, others it belly-flopped onto the ground. So funny to watch!

Getting ready to jump. 

Just managing to latch on. 

Sharing the bird feeder with an actual bird lol. 

Anybody else get distracted by the things in their garden?

Ack

I dropped my phone again. The small crack that was on the screen has gotten bigger. I like my phone. It's a cheap-ish model, but it does what I want and I know how it works. I am not a big fan of getting a new one but I fear it's in the near future. Sigh.

As I got up early this morning and was out walking at 7.30am I decided I'd go to a clothing shop after my walk and try on some more bottoms. Sigh. Not a good experience. I could only find one (yes 1) pair in the size I needed and they weren't a great fit or a particularly nice colour. Back to square one. I am promptly running out of time and it is starting to get to me. This week is almost over and I want to get them before we go camping so I don't leave it until the week I leave as I'll be running around like crazy as it is.

Chatted with Mum today and sorted out some photos to put in her album. Last year when I was home we took a bus to Holywells Park in Ipswich and the area she grew up in including passing by the house she grew up in. I took photos and I'm sure she'll like copies of them. I had forgotten that I had taken them. Luckily when I got last year's photos developed I had organised them.

This is a photo I took of the Starling and baby in my garden yesterday. The babies are as big as the adults but they still want feeding! They are really impatient too and look to be quite violent. There are a lot of them about in my garden at the moment. On another note, mother and father sparrow have abandoned their home. Not sure if their babies flew the nest, but one morning when I woke up there was a lot of nest stuffing on the ground and Mother and Father didn't hang around much longer than that.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Wednesday and the sun is shining wherever you are. Thanks for reading my blog.