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Polarengineer · #181 Post by **Polarengineer** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:45 pm

Maybe a hot cross wren

Char · #182 Post by **Char** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:01 pm

It's lovely seeing the gardens all springing into life isn't it.

exile · #183 Post by **exile** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:23 pm

Yes it is Char - and all ready for this weekend's retreat back to winter. We are forecast -4C overnight.

Char · #184 Post by **Char** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:30 pm

exile wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:23 pm Yes it is Char - and all ready for this weekend's retreat back to winter. We are forecast -4C overnight.

I never take good weather for granted this time of year - we had blizzards one year at Easter.

Spectrum · #185 Post by **Spectrum** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:24 am

Char wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:30 pm
exile wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:23 pm Yes it is Char - and all ready for this weekend's retreat back to winter. We are forecast -4C overnight.
I never take good weather for granted this time of year - we had blizzards one year at Easter.

Be careful what you say, three of my forecast's give snow out for this area Friday night

up to 90mm. And temps down to -4, so Thursday will be a busy day putting fleece on a lot of plants/bushes.

Blaze · #186 Post by **Blaze** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:24 am

Speckled wood butterfly in the garden yesterday.

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Sparkle · #187 Post by **Sparkle** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:18 pm

@Char same here this was taken 12 March a few years back but we do tend to get snow in March every year be it a sprinkling or a full on duvet. One year we had a very warm beginning to March and bought 2 adirondaks. The seller asked us to send photos so we dressed down, took a deep breath and smiled sitting in the chairs shivering in feet of snow - I luv snow

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Char · #188 Post by **Char** » Thu May 26, 2022 3:08 pm

No piccie I'm afraid, but sitting in the garden this morning, I'd just finished reading a biography of Dipa Ma and put the kindle down and was enjoying the last of my cup of coffee whilst watching a blackbird collecting worms for its young, when low an behold a Hoopoe flew down in front of me and started walking around pecking at the ground. I've never seen one that close before - it looked like it should have been in a Fred Flintstone cartoon.

I'm still smiling about it now.

Blaze · #189 Post by **Blaze** » Thu May 26, 2022 3:34 pm

Lucky you, Char ! We don't get them here, sadly. We used to see them regularly at the last place because we were surrounded by forest ....
Here it's shite hawks !

Blaze · #190 Post by **Blaze** » Fri May 27, 2022 4:49 pm

I can never resist these, such a beautiful colour. La Cétoine dorée or rose chafer (I had to look up the English for it

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The big daisies are a paradise for insects .....

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