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Post Info TOPIC: David Walsh, Stalybridge (COVID-19 garden lockdown)


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Saturday 11th April 2020, 9.00pm.

Locking away hens, and watching Pipistrelles feeding in the garden.

3 or 4 Ringed Plover calling, flying over west to east. Total 27.

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Friday 10th April 2020.

Willow Warbler singing briefly in the hedge
Chaffinch also singing in the same hedge

Jackdaw, Long-tailed Tits, and House Sparrows still nest building

Total now 26

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Brief sortie to transplant tomato seedlings:

Jackdaw now nesting in our eaves
Herring Gull over
Bullfinch

Total now 24

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Roger Baker 3 wrote:

Still cant post a photo of the garden the right way up!?!
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Have you not tried taking it while stood on your head ???

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Looks like wizard of the website has fixed it for me. Thanks, Ian winkwink

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Roger Baker 3 wrote:

Still cant post a photo of the garden the right way up!?!
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Have you not tried taking it while stood on your head ???

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I feel like Ive spent the past week and a half stood on my head, but I bow down to your photographic know how, Roger. I will try it later. Managed to get one of Wild Bank backlit with a blue sky, too. Well peeved.

Carrion Crow visible out of the kitchen window just now, eyeing up the chicken corn on the floor.

Total now 20.

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Still cant post a photo of the garden the right way up!?!
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Have you not tried taking it while stood on your head ???

R.

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Monday 30th March 2020, 6.30am. Species collecting nesting material: Jackdaw, Magpies, Pair of Long-tailed Tits, Colony of House Sparrows, Singing males: 2 Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, 2 Dunnock, 2 Robin, Wren, Others: Woodpigeon displaying, Pair of Collared Dove, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Starlings, Overhead: Canada Geese, Black-headed Gulls, Total = 19 Still cant post a photo of the garden the right way up!?!

-- Edited by David Walsh on Monday 30th of March 2020 10:21:15 PM

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As a pharmacist in one the busiest pharmacies in Ashton, I am not exactly confined to barracks at the moment. My wife however, is on her own when I am at work, so my days off tend, at the moment, to be concerned with keeping her company, therefore time in the garden will be very much at a premium. A medium sized (25yds x 25yds) garden, behind a Victorian end-terraced on the busy Huddersfield Road. The garden is south-west facing, with high hawthorn and privet hedging on two sides. Another border contains mature hazel, medlar, and greengage trees. Next door has a large silver birch tree, which is popular with a variety of finches. There is a 15 x 10yd vegetable plot, two poultry runs, and an apiary, currently only housing one colony. Stalybridge Country Park is only 300yds due east, but there are two housing estates in between. In the attached photo, Wild Bank Hill looms to the right, and Harridge is just visible to the left, with Brushes Valley between the two, hidden by the sycamore tree. Proof then, that those three sites are within walkable distance during this lockdown.

I dont keep lists, and my focus at this time of year tends to be recording breeding codes, so it will be interesting to see how many I manage in the garden. A Tawny Owl hooting from the sycamore tree last Thursday got us off to a good start.

Best garden record was a Woodcock (on two occasions), out of a bramble patch that has now been cleared (by order of my wife).



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