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Post by YorksherLass on Mar 28, 2019 15:50:41 GMT
In next door's garden: 1 Oak tree & 1 Lilac tree (in leaf now) & behind her back fence: 2 huge Alder trees with ivy. Behind our back fence: 1 bigger Oak tree just visible on the left of the 1 Conifer. My weeping Copper Beech tree - a memorial tree as I buried my parents ashes underneath it. Left side of our Big Shed, which was a garage until 1997. Red Robin bushes, Californian Lilac & later on lots of daisy type flowers. Still unpainted fence after removing ivy from it, insect & bird box on wall (photo taken from my seat.) Last, but not least - my seat!
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Post by elle on Mar 28, 2019 20:24:04 GMT
What an absolutely beautiful garden you have there Diane, would love to sit there with a glass of veno and take it all in  would love a garden that size, my garden is only about 14ft x 14ft  Elle xx |
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Post by WildlifePaul on Mar 28, 2019 20:41:34 GMT
Diane, Your garden is bloody beautiful! Little wildlife haven  |
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Post by YorksherLass on Mar 29, 2019 16:49:00 GMT
 for your replies, I've been out there all day again today. Oh how I wish I could swap gardens with you Elle as ours is 80 feet long (can't do the other sizes, still in yards, feet & inches) & I don't know how wide it is. Thing is, hubby can only just manage to mow & strim the lawn & the rest is down to me & it's getting harder to deal with.
On the up side though, what you can't see is a pile of big stones behind the Big Shed - my female frogs hibernate in the holes in there in Winter - males stay in the pond.
The great tits & blue tits use my weeping copper beech to stand on & hide inside when in leaf, checking the coast is clear before going into the nest box & they also call the fledglings out from there too. The Californian lilac & Red Robin on the right side is also used for hiding in & that's where the chicks aim for when they leave the nest.
Sparrows had two nests in the bushes on the back fence last year, plus one in the ivy on the fence on the right of the Big Shed & finally another one on the left side of the shed - so see lots going on when I sit out.  I'm tired now, so will catch up with Bird Box messages tomorrow. |
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Post by elle on Mar 29, 2019 19:25:21 GMT
 Yayyy let’s swap Diane Elle xx
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Post by YorksherLass on Apr 9, 2019 13:58:04 GMT
I have no cameras in my bird box & garden, so I've no idea of course what any of my birds are doing in their nests. From our kitchen window early mornings, (I'm up long before dawn for the majority of the year) I see a lot of happenings at least. For the last couple of weeks two lots of sparrows have been going into two different places in the ivy on our Big Shed, one lot in the big left side & the other in the ivy at the front, near the left door. Yesterday morning, I saw a male blackbird watching big birds very closely when they were underneath the place in the big ivy where I saw a female blackbird diving in & out regularly ...... possibly a nest in that part of the ivy too? Ooops ... a confession!  I haven't told you any deliberate fibs about having only one bird box, which I think was an RSBP one twelve years ago, which has had nests every year from 2008, but we did buy another bird box from a Garden Centre eleven years ago. It's wood with a slate roof, metal entrance hole (size unknown) & it's on the house wall on the right of my seat. No interest in this one over the years (only dust in it) until 4 days ago, when I saw a great tit fly into it, saw him once more yesterday & once today. I won't know whether it was used or not (unless I see something more of value than that) until late August when I'll ask our daughter to take it down for us to have a look. |
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Post by suep on Apr 9, 2019 14:20:34 GMT
Beautiful garden Diane, you must spend a lot of time in it. An absolute dream for the birds. Glorious.
Sue
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Post by WildlifePaul on Apr 9, 2019 19:47:13 GMT
Sounds like you have alot going on around the garden Diane, I would be out init everyday  |
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Post by YorksherLass on Apr 22, 2019 16:17:16 GMT
This swing seat is my Easter present from my husband. The canopy tilts backwards & forwards as desired, so I can sit in complete shade from the sun until mid afternoon at the moment. When the sun gets onto my legs, I move to my green seat with table, which is now in front of the fence on the left hand side of my garden - this is always in shade. I am a very happy bunny now & not just for Easter! 
At least I can watch the birds when I have to do the HATED sewing! 
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Post by WildlifePaul on Apr 22, 2019 16:35:03 GMT
Oh bet you are loving that Diane!  |
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Post by suep on Apr 23, 2019 7:53:52 GMT
What a fantastic gift. Very thoughtful. May you spend many a happy day swinging there.
Sue
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 10:01:52 GMT
Lovely Garden Diane!
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Post by blueeyedchick on Apr 24, 2019 10:16:03 GMT
Just spotted your thread Diane nice garden agreed but know what you mean about keeping on top of it. Each year that goes by it gets harder less energy. I have a company to trim our forsythia bushes each year but that is getting more expensive! Love the idea of parents ashes under a Beech lovely thing to do.  |
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Post by kevin on Apr 26, 2019 15:38:59 GMT
Diane your garden is really beautiful, thanks for sharing. |
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Post by chrisp on May 2, 2019 13:26:07 GMT
Lovely garden Diane with plenty of cover for the birds . I love the red shrubs ,what a lovely splash of colour they make.
Hope we get some warm sun back so you can enjoy your new seat.
Chris
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Post by YorksherLass on May 7, 2019 16:19:42 GMT
Here's two more piccies of the two things in the garden, which the BT's & the GT's & all their fledglings use every single trip to and from it - whether it be to the nest box or the feeders - Californian Lilac & weeping copper beech tree.
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Post by elle on May 7, 2019 20:23:15 GMT
Oh Diane, I’m so jealous of your garden, these are beautiful pics of your Californian lilac, just beautiful  and your weeping Copper Beech, ‘weeping willows’ are my favourite tree, I tell my family when it’s time for me to meet my maker, I want to be underneath a ‘weeping Willow’, but I might change my mind and say a ‘Weeping Copper Beech!’ Elle xx |
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Post by WildlifePaul on May 8, 2019 13:55:29 GMT
Lovely pictures Diane!
Such a gorgeous garden, You should be proud of it.
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Post by YorksherLass on May 17, 2019 14:54:10 GMT
I've been out in the garden again this afternoon & my GT (Merlin) if he is a Mr. GT is still the only one feeding the chicks, so everything is OK for his little family at the moment. I managed to get just one shot of him yesterday at the nest box hole, which is the first time I've managed it since the one I took of Tattyhead on 24 May 2010! As mentioned in another thread somewhere, not a good photo as my camera is an ordinary Kodak which is quite old.
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Post by suep on May 17, 2019 17:42:53 GMT
Well done Diane, brilliant. yahoo_clap
Sue
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Post by WildlifePaul on May 18, 2019 12:01:32 GMT
Lovely picture Diane!
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Post by elle on May 19, 2019 18:25:47 GMT
This is great Diane, you’ve done better than me, if I so much as show my face in the garden they’re off!!! So no chance of close up pictures or even zoom! .........  come to think about it, they might not be just scared of humans, it might be my face  Elle xx |
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Post by kevin on May 23, 2019 6:44:05 GMT
Great picture Diane.
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for your replies, I've been out there all day again today. Oh how I wish I could swap gardens with you Elle as ours is 80 feet long (can't do the other sizes, still in yards, feet & inches) & I don't know how wide it is. Thing is, hubby can only just manage to mow & strim the lawn & the rest is down to me & it's getting harder to deal with.
I'm tired now, so will catch up with Bird Box messages tomorrow.
Yayyy let’s swap Diane 
I haven't told you any deliberate fibs about having only one bird box, which I think was an RSBP one twelve years ago, which has had nests every year from 2008, but we did buy another bird box from a Garden Centre eleven years ago. It's wood with a slate roof, metal entrance hole (size unknown) & it's on the house wall on the right of my seat. No interest in this one over the years (only dust in it) until 4 days ago, when I saw a great tit fly into it, saw him once more yesterday & once today.
and your weeping Copper Beech, ‘weeping willows’ are my favourite tree, I tell my family when it’s time for me to meet my maker, I want to be underneath a ‘weeping Willow’, but I might change my mind and say a ‘Weeping Copper Beech!’ 
come to think about it, they might not be just scared of humans, it might be my face 