With no walks to report on I shall have to bore you with something else.
Yesterday I spent doing some bits and pieces in the garden. I carried my GPS device in my pocket and much to my surprise discovered I had walked over 2 miles. As our garden is nearly 100 yards long it shouldn't have come as a surprise. Up and down twice would be nearly a quarter of a mile.
At the bottom of the garden there is a bell hanging on a tree...
Next to the back door there is another bell...
If I am needed (phone call etc.) This bell is rung and I ring the garden bell to say I have heard and am coming.
In the garden i discovered something I have read about and seen pictures of but have never seen for myself.
But what is t ?
I am fairly sure it's a thrushes "anvil" where a thrush will hammer snails against a stone (or brick) until the shell cracks and it can eat the contents. I was quite unreasonably excited by this. (sad git !)
In another part of the garden was a somewhat sadder discovery. At the foot of this tree..
were the sad remains of a "squab" (baby pigeon) which had fallen out of the nest above.
I think this is quite common as pigeon nests are very flimsy affairs of little more than a tangled platform of twigs.
Well I have probably bored you enough so I shall finish. Perhaps our other writers might put something more thrilling on line for you.
Just a little more. Our very keen naturalist neighbour tells me that the reservoirs at the bottom of our garden. (Now a nature reserve) play host to thousands of resident and migrant birds. FOUR species of bats. Foxes Badgers and are even visited by Otters. Well, Well, Well !
JW
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