Post by benn on Dec 2, 2022 10:25:23 GMT
Hi All
Thought I would check in.
Much change in our back garden this Autumn. Our 27 year old wooden fence adjoining the back field with the horses was leaning in badly with the horses compacting the ground behind the fence. Our shed was also leaning and the roof was rotting.
5 weeks later, after days of labouring, digging out several cubic metres of clay in awful weather, we have built a sturdier concrete 2ft 6" wall from posts and gravel boards that support 4ft trellis panels. We have also erected a new Keter composite shed.
Unfortunately the Ivy had to go and believe me I wrestled with the jungle like stuff and the huge roots for days, attacking it with a petrol chainsaw!! Although Ivy is great for the birds I don't think we will reinstate it again, 25 years of dealing with it is enough for one lifetime and i am feeling my age these days!
The result is that 2 camera boxes and a Robin Kettle have no place to go now. However, for some reason the cables to these had failed anyhow.
So that leaves us with our two house wall boxes which were occupied by Blue and Great Tits last season and our Starling box all with cameras. I have moved the large open fronted box to a side fence behind the Raspberry canes but due to the failed cables there will be no video feed if a Blackbird or Robin take residence. We also have the Swift boxes with cameras out front which did have some interest shown this last two summers by immature non breeding birds.
We currently have two Blue Tits separately roosting in the two wall boxes (I think they be the same pair that nested last summer). Both these boxes are now side view boxes.
Good luck to everyone for 2023!
Some pictures of the work below
Thought I would check in.
Much change in our back garden this Autumn. Our 27 year old wooden fence adjoining the back field with the horses was leaning in badly with the horses compacting the ground behind the fence. Our shed was also leaning and the roof was rotting.
5 weeks later, after days of labouring, digging out several cubic metres of clay in awful weather, we have built a sturdier concrete 2ft 6" wall from posts and gravel boards that support 4ft trellis panels. We have also erected a new Keter composite shed.
Unfortunately the Ivy had to go and believe me I wrestled with the jungle like stuff and the huge roots for days, attacking it with a petrol chainsaw!! Although Ivy is great for the birds I don't think we will reinstate it again, 25 years of dealing with it is enough for one lifetime and i am feeling my age these days!
The result is that 2 camera boxes and a Robin Kettle have no place to go now. However, for some reason the cables to these had failed anyhow.
So that leaves us with our two house wall boxes which were occupied by Blue and Great Tits last season and our Starling box all with cameras. I have moved the large open fronted box to a side fence behind the Raspberry canes but due to the failed cables there will be no video feed if a Blackbird or Robin take residence. We also have the Swift boxes with cameras out front which did have some interest shown this last two summers by immature non breeding birds.
We currently have two Blue Tits separately roosting in the two wall boxes (I think they be the same pair that nested last summer). Both these boxes are now side view boxes.
Good luck to everyone for 2023!
Some pictures of the work below
