Weekly Chat, Sunday April 25, 2010

Hi, Sue C! Good to see you. Thanks for the congrats. I think KathyQ and Kinney will have another successful season. They are a very experienced pair, and dedicated volunteers will help protect the chicks from threats posed by the urban setting.

I read your links. That is a truly outstanding blog photo of the peregrines doing battle. Thirty chicks since 2001 is an astounding feat and very good for the peregrine population. That is an interesting turn of events that Green 36 attacked his own grandparents' nest!!! Now that more birds are being ringed, we'll discover all sorts of sagas, I suppose. LOL

Let me know how your visit goes. I hope all the chicks make it to fledging!

Lindybird, I loved the humourous eagle/cats photo.

SueC, I hope there is a hatching at Chichester before the weekend, when I will be visiting sister-IL in W. Sussex, and will be able to go and see the peregrines.

OG, Thank you for all your photographs.

Trying to keep my eye on the LG nest, as I am, truly, catching up with the ironing.

Afternoon all on Saturday paid a visit to Vane Farm to get some more fatballs and there has been an osprey sighted fishing in the loch and the ranger said it managed to get a fish on the second attempt but he didn't say if there were ospreys nesting nearby. There has also been three owlets hatched and there are some great photos of them on the Forums under the heading Owlet Update RSPB Vane Farm worth a look for anyone interested in owls 

Afternoon all,

GeorgeG :  Interesting that there was an osprey fishing in the loch. Probably passing through.

Just been mowing the lawn and thought you might like this picture of a clematis alpina now flowering in the garden:

Good afternoon all and thanks for the news and pics.  I tried to post this morning but it was saying server error and as I had not received an automated email updates thought there was still a fault.  Thought to look at weekly and daily blogs and find everyone is posting so not sure why I am not getting automated emails.  I choose to have this so I don't miss anything.  Nice pic Alan your garden looks very nice and I should imagine you have a lot of colour now with everything bursting into bloom.  Going to daily update now to see what I have missed.

Lindybird love the pic of the eagle and the cats.

Good day Monday – OH managed to spike the grass this morning – but maybe too breezy to spread treatment tonight.  Thanks for overnight posts.  Annette – looks like Tucker Steve will be going same route as before – up to Utah – must get very boring driving the same roads.  Getting same server error logging in now - had to get here sideways.  Good to see Gary on weekly chat again!  Diane – never tried film or video photography – except to video GDau’s school musical on tiny “free gift” camera whose battery used to run out after about 3 minutes!!  Thinking of Caerann – hope she’ll drop by soon and let us know how it’s going.  AQ – there is a whole family of flutterbyes called Fritillaries.  Wattle – I’ve noticed you are quite often commenting on Daily pages among the night shift!  Lindybird – loved the Eagle and Cats picture!!  SueC – good to know Chichester Peregrines are doing well – can’t find time to follow them as well as Ospreys, but still very interested.  DjoanS – good to hear good report re airline!!  Hope you are enjoying today after your interruptions on Sunday.  BrendaH – enjoy your visit to the peregrines next weekend.  Thanks for comment on photos – take lots to get some good ones – joy of digital! GeorgeG – how wonderful if the Osprey is nesting near Vane Farm – there are some good forested hills so it’s possible, and it would be an added attraction for visitors there.  Will look up the owls.  Alan – lovely blue Clematis – thoughts of summer!

Now must go and move stuff about in the greenhouse - need to get some seedlings out of propagator, never enough space at this time of the year, with vegs germinating and geraniums still inside “just in case”.  It was good to see this male Reed Bunting where he should be, among reeds, rather than as they were trying to survive winter in gardens:

Another great pic from OG!   We are enjoying them OG.   Yes, I had to get in here 'sideways' too, just now, by signing in as myself and then following links from 'My Page' !!  Otherwise, no go, just couldnt get past that dratted notice!

Just got home from visiting Farm Shop - its in a village near here, the sort of thing that you drive past & say to yourself  'must go in there sometime'  - so today we thought we'd have a nice drive thru the lanes, and call in. Got  lovely farm vegetables, with the dirt still on them, and tomatoes which smell like my Dad's greenhouse! Also came out with birthday wrapping paper, baby geranium plants, and of course, big bag of Bird Seed...

Lindybird - love visiting farm shops - but always come away with things I didn't know I needed(?)  When we went to Loch Arthur Creamery last week for one thing, we came away with five - and that was being quite restrained - then it was Farmers' Market this Saturday and we also went on the regular market - but I guess most of the "extras" are substitutes for other things - anyway, nothing gets wasted in this house!  There are some lovely country lanes in what I think is your part of Cheshire - often use byeways when we are out and about, and visited Tatton Park quite often from Lancashire.  Decided to repot my Tomato plants (grown from seed) as their roots were just beginning to show through the bottom of their pots - always sow one to a small pot then move on at this stage, as they get less root disturbance that way.

Next picture - you'll have to take my word for this one, but I'm very pleased that I snapped them, as OH didn't even see them!  Two Lapwings tumbling:

Your photos are really up to professional standard original goldfinch, what a sight to catch.