Add your "Odds & Sods" here thread ... 2020

This ones waiting for the shops to open and get a new coat

Lovely additions everyone--thanks!

Linda, Please also add the photos you posted late yesterday (on the previous page) to your garden thread as well--keeps them all together and will let you and anyone else looking back to see events-as-you-recorded-them over the whole summer/year!

Will do , Thanks Ann

A wee bit of Jiggery Pokery in photoshop to try and rescue some shots in poor light from today.

Still, not an everyday sight for me.!! :-)

Heavily cropped and adjusted.!!

Spent a fair bit of time just watching through the bino's though. Lovely.!!  :-)

Lovely jubbly Paul, it's a few years since I saw a Cuckoo, well spotted !

Rubbish pics as these turned up during the hours of gloom and had to be snapped through the window  !    but just to show you a couple of the wildlife we can see from our window ......

Each morning I watch the wild rabbits in the side garden whilst making my first cuppa of the day;   today there were three,  this is one of them  although it was pretty gloomy to get a decent shot  but I thought Ann would like this  .....

and Momma Mallard perched on the water garden light !    who appears to only have one grown up chick with her;   she was teaching it how to preen those feathers 

How many days has it taken you Hazy to find the wildlife!!!! Hope you are settling in and getting plenty of rest. Lovely shot of the Mallard Mum, strange it looks as if it is sitting in the middle of a flooded road.

Oh Hazel, you are right; I do love the bunny! And your Momma Mallard is gorgeous as well, though she looks like she is standing on the helmet of the passenger on an underwater motorcycle--not a pond light fixture! And was your last Cuckoo the one you saw with us?

Paul, Love the Cuckoo shots!

Thanks Gaynor and Ann,   the light did look a bit strange with the mallards on it   lol       the pond/water area still has some work to be done although hopefully not too many larvae or other pond critters will be disturbed.    It was good to still see the dragonflies and damsels but we need the sunshine back again as it's pretty grey today with more drizzle on the forecast all day.     

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And was your last Cuckoo the one you saw with us?

Yes Ann,   at Newport Wetlands where apparently there were ..... definitely two .....  or did another visitor tell us there were three, so long ago I can't remember  lol  ?   

This years kestrels nest in the local valley for the last 2 months. No idea why I have to add music or narration so I'm happy to be told off for that.  Three chicks fledged, all female like last year.