New Dovecot 🕊️

                       Blue Tit mumma feeding her chicks .

   Anyone who knows me , knows how much  I enjoy to see our local wildlife .

Gold Finch                          

And I know that so many of us in the U.K. love to feed and watch our wild birds .

 I'm not 100% sure but I think this is a female Siskin finch .( let me know in the comments )

I have my bird feeders hanging in front of my kitchen window so I can watch them while I do the washing up .

I think this one is the male Siskin finch .

I love my Squirrels too ..they do make me laugh !

               Mrs Blackbird in my kitchen , helping herself to a grape . 

 Handsome Green Woodpecker  looking for grubs , on the bank opposite my kitchen window . I managed to sneak outside and take lots of pics quite close up . 

 He often comes and takes grubs out of the lawn .

 Yep , he's a regular visitor . 💚

The Bullfinch who doesn't come to my garden very often . And causes much scrabbling for my camera when he does !  ❤️

                         We used to have this dovecot style nesting box  .

We bought it at the boot fair in Truro years ago . I don't think the boot fair is there anymore . It used to be held in the fields in front of the farmers market ,  near to where Hobbycraft is now .

 We loved going to this boot fair and had many good finds and plants there . 

  It had such a nice friendly atmosphere too . 

Our children came too and we'd all go home with some treasure or in my case plants ! 

I was delighted to spot this lovely old bird house /dovecot .

 We had it for a quite a few years  , gave it a coat of paint every now and then . 

It was well used by the Blue tits . Many a big family of Blue tit chicks were raised in there !

Sadly it was smashed down during the winter storms . I still have the main part of it , but the bottom of it is gone and too tricky to be repaired .  Heartbroken  . I was thinking about putting it into the greenhouse with plants growing through it or I might have a go at mending it somehow .

I'll do something with it .....  🤔

Anyway to cut a very long story short .

Ricardo and my daughter surprised me with a new one ! 🤩 

    And yesterday it was finally fixed up by two very strong and clever men . 

One heck of a task , because it was a very heavy and awkward shape to have hauled up this steep and slippery bank and needed to be fixed into the ground properly and really well  .

 They have done a great and very professional job of it !   

                           I am just so thankful and thrilled to bits with it !   ❤️🕊️🌿

The baby fledgling Blue Tit I rescued . He didn't quite make it on his first take off . But I carefully put him back up on the tree here and his next go was a success ! 🩵

          Male Woodpecker , the most handsome one of all !  🖤           

                         Collared Dove one of a pair that occasionally visits .

                         

                               All for today folks ! Have a great weekend !

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Another Beautiful Morning ! ☀️

 

                    Fixed up the teepee for my Sweet-Peas and Black-Eyed Suzies .

        ..... I am doing nothing else today .....except some roast potatoes to go with my cheese flan.

                   Gonna sit in the summerhouse and do my embroidery ! 

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Beautiful Morning !

 

                          Up and out into the garden 7am . Wow ! The Sun !

                       Filled that wheelbarrow with weeds .

Spread the two year old woodchip mulch .

 

I'm trying hard to replenish the good earth after months of storms and relentless rain .

I feel I can never make enough of this  .

I need to move some of these Echiums while they are still small and replant them in other locations in the garden .

Camelia "Water Lily " Is in full bloom now .  So lovely !

Took off a couple more leaves of wind damaged Chamaerops . Looks much better now . 

Completely forgot about breakfast ! 

........but when I came in , I made up for that by cooking enough for the next few days .

And half of the flan will be going over to my daughter  and also boiled enough potatoes for mash today and roast potatoes tomorrow . Ricardo would have roast potatoes everyday if he could !

Anyway ,

 This week I have splurged out on a bag of Shallots .

And got them planted out straight away  ...in the rain .

Put grids over them while they are getting their roots down .

I took up the rest of my Leeks . We've eaten the best of them . 

These are a bit small but we will use them . These are L. Musselbroro 

 I have already sown L.Bleu de Solaise and L. Jaune de Poitou up in the shed . 

 Did a bit more weeding  and a gentle bit of digging  . I have Kale seedlings waiting in the shed to go in here . 

I will throw down some chicken pellets to give the good earth a little boost .

                                     🌿Beautiful moss 🌿

A reduced pot of Parsley from the supermarket made me happy .

I split it up and planted them all out .

They were not happy about it !    But I think they'll pick up in a few days ! Fingers crossed 😄

I need to give the Chives some better protection , Something 🐰 has been enjoying nibbles ! 🌿

Brought more wood in and got  the fire going . It is cold this evening with the clear skies .

Pleased with the new fencing , I have to sew on some windbreak mesh . What is that spooky little green light thing ? 🟢  Fairies ....Cornish Piskies ? 

  ☀️  It's going to be lovely again tomorrow .....the nice checkout assistant in Sainsburys said so ! ☀️

                            

                                      Love and Peace  🤍🕊️