Found in the garden

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Char · #151 Post by **Char** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 2:07 pm

Fantastic - you lucky lucky person.

Doug · #152 Post by **Doug** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:47 pm

Wonderful[mention]Spardo[/mention] hope you manage to get a photo.
My first property here in France was watermill, I could sit up in bed having my morning coffee watching through the window, both kingfishers and dippers darting in and out of the river.

Spardo · #153 Post by **Spardo** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:21 pm

No such luck, it never came back, and in fact all the other birds were absent too. There was one only evident from the ripples on the surface, which I couldn't see because of all the overhanging vegetation.

I will try again today and focus on the bottom pond where I first saw it and the shrubs are less overhanging there, but I think it might have happened here by accident, there are no fish and no rivers up here on the hill. I expect he is back down in the valley fishing the river.

I would love to have a stream running through the garden. When I first dug the 3 ponds I connected them all by a channel which, from the top (swimming) pond descended through the trees, under a wooden patio into the middle pond and then down a short waterfall into the bottom one. From there a pump sent it all back up to the top. It was magical, but some ladies didn't appreciate their rather more frequent visits to the toilet

and it was a tad expensive to run for extended times.

Blaze · #154 Post by **Blaze** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:04 pm

Blue tits and great tits, more this year than I've seen for a long time.

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Sparkle · #155 Post by **Sparkle** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:43 pm

lovely photos Blaze.

Blaze · #156 Post by **Blaze** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:10 pm

Thank you, Sparkle

Here are a couple more of the usual suspects :

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Oldblueraincoat · Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:55 am

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Blaze · #158 Post by **Blaze** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:58 am

An, that last one is very special, @Oldblueraincoat

I haven't seen any yet, they're probably hiding under stones.

Oldblueraincoat · Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:08 pm

Blaze wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:58 am An, that last one is very special, @Oldblueraincoat I haven't seen any yet, they're probably hiding under stones.

Thank you - It's a very Luck Toad Mme OBR spotted it under the car - transferred to the adjacent field so no danger of being flattened

Sparkle · #160 Post by **Sparkle** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:26 pm

We have two in our garden but unless we're out in the garden in the early hours ie 3am-5am we don't see them. We wouldn't have known about them. That came about when the cat was poorly and we had to go out with her not cos she wanted the toilet she just wanted to go out for an hour or so

She dobbed one - it jumped, she jumped, we all jumped

Guess they are in Toad Hall by day

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