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[nuthatch]

Willpar's Christmas Hedgehogs

[Placido]

to all my Forum pals - may 2016 be kind to you .

The Year of the Monkey cometh

[Willpar]

Hope you all have a great 2016 with plenty of wildlife.

[peregrine]

Female GSW just been in. What a start to 2016,

[Jacksparrow]

Female GSW just been in. What a start to 2016,

Was she the first footer?

[Placido]

I discover that today we're right in the miggle of the 2016 New Year Bird Count
Oops, missed that !!

I like the new ad on TV for the Garden Bird Count this year - Sheppie looks particularly magnificent

[JooMoo]

What is that and why is it different to the Big Garden Birdwatch which is at the end of January?

[Jacksparrow]

I discover that today we're right in the miggle of the 2016 New Year Bird Count
Oops, missed that !!

I like the new ad on TV for the Garden Bird Count this year - Sheppie looks particularly magnificent

First I've heard of it The RSPB organised count is the last weekend in January

[Placido]

I saw it on the TV advert and that was that. However, after reading JooMoo's and Jacksparrow's comments I googled it and find that it's only in The Highlands !!!! Now why that should have been on the national TV ad beats me but there you go.

[Jacksparrow]

Today turned out to be a sad day for many of my garden birds. Along about a third of my back boundary fence is line of garages available to rent from the Housing Association. For a good number of years a rather splendid growth of Ivy has been using the back garage wall to shin up and thence over the roof. In years past this Ivy has been home to numerous Robin's nest and Blackbirds too and the berries have fed countless others. Today "men" arrived with chainsaws and a big shredder and removed it plus any other plants that happened to be between my back fence and the garages. I have no doubt the Ivy will in time recover but in the intervening period finding homes for nesting birds is going to be very difficult.