Gardens/Birds 2013

[Old Cruser]

Whats the holes doing in your lawn Fly                                       
Bring your cues and balls to Pete's Barry's chaps

[simondjuk]

I cut the grass for the first time this year yesterday, 3 grass boxes full to the brim.

Pond filter is now off as we have hundreds of tadpoles swimming around thanks to the 9 frogs (at last count) that we have.

Garden tidying needs to be finished, old kitchen is down the local tip, just got some cardboard and rubble to take now and then it can be cleared up properly.

[Old Cruser]

Whats the holes doing in your lawn Fly                                       
Bring your cues and balls to Pete's Barry's chaps

Sorry     

[Fly]

Sorry     

I've been called worse 

[Old Cruser]

Help I need to find the garden Birds from last years posts canna find em help!please 

[Pete]

This it? http://chesterfieldonline.org/index.php/topic,1198.0.html

[Fly]

Think OC meant the actual birds aren't in her garden, not that she couldn't find the post.
Though I might be wrong 

[Pete]

Do you want us to come round yours OC and help look? 

[Fly]

She's probably not been wearing her glasses Pete, plenty of tits and other birds in our garden   

[Old Cruser]

 ) Bugger off you two  )

Thanks Mr Pete have found what I needed to know.

Basically i have put out fresh Niger seed to try and attract the Gold Finches - not had any luck yet but it's only been out about 3 days and I notice it was around June last year when they came - so fingers crossed.
I was amazed to see photos i had posted of blue tits in May feeding and a Blackbird feeding her young one in the ground feeder.
Not seen any blue tits yet and certainly no fledges.
I wonder if the long winter has pushed the birds back a bit - what do you think????
Or is it because the trees were lopped down a few gardens away???
 

[Fly]

Yah  Got at least 3 frogs in the green house this year 

Just been and bought a couple more tomato plants to go alongside the 6-7 we've grown from seed,
and a couple of cucumber plants. Female variety 
Plus a few more plants for the hanging baskets.

[Old Cruser]

I bought a few more plants on Thursday whilst out with my mate - she's as bad as me for her plants.
Not put them out yet - too bloody cold for my fingers out there.
Still only got Starlings, (greedy guts), Robin, a lone sparrow and the Blackbirds. 
Oh and the flipping Magpie 

[poppy]

In an effort to save the tadpoles from being carp food this year, we have a temporary "taddy pond". there's gonna be a lot of frogs!

[Old Cruser]

Blimey yes there are. What a lovely thing to do (shhh don't tell Fly he might get em for Margaret  )
It brings back memories of the Wingerworth Lido as a youngster we used to take the spawn back and put them in the old pot sink in the wash house  It was great to watch them go through the growing cycle - i just love the baby frogs they are so cute. 

[Fly]

Were ok with our own Boza frogs thank you 

Have a feeling we might get a good crop of pears(left) and apples(right) this year. Lots of blossom coming on.
The pear tree didn't have any last year.



Here's a shot of the back lawn. Just for OC