I always miss you when you aren't here and always glad when you pop up. I haven't been able to get Sapphire outside because this year has been pretty much normal. Too cold. It's supposed to be raining here this weekend also but finally up in the eighties f. I'm hoping to get Sapphire outside for the first time this year. But really May would still be a bit early if our climate was acting normally. May will be our anniversary and there was snow on the ground the day I received him.
Wish we lived near to each other. I love playing with ignorant people like that.That's a pretty bird!
My nasty neighbours are up to their old tricks and have no consideration for the Earth or anyone/thing on it.
I love to feed and watch the birds and at last count had 13 different species popping in. However yesterday lots of shiny foil ribbons attached to 3 foot poles appeared above their fence. They are bird scarers
They obviously don't like the birds sitting on their fence en route to my bird diner. Maybe it's bird poop they object to, but it's a damned sight easier to clean up than their cat poop which is deposited in my garden. I haven't said anything because I've been assured that the birds will soon get used to it and ignore them. 🤞 I do hope so - I didn't see any goldfinches today and they usually visit everyday.
Then this evening the woman started washing her paved garden and fake grass with chemicals, fine if they kept it in their own garden but they were power hosing it all under their gate (which is at 90' to my fence) flooding the lane at the end of my garden. I picked up about 30 dead or dying worms because a hedgehog has been using the lane at night and if he ate them he could be poisoned. I told her about it and asked her to use her drains instead but all the stupid women kept saying was that it was dog friendly cleaner so wouldn't hurt, she couldn't seem to grasp that if she put it in the dog's food he would probably be ill or die too, and it certainly wasn't worm friendly. She still carried on though.
It would be a happier Earth if they weren't on it.
Dear Lyn,
I've managed to get Jacky outside:
Thanks for the update. I suppose they may never be fit to be used again having been that scared on the streets. Hopefully they'll find a good home for them if they can't retrain them x
Lola has started to wander out most days now, but doesn't stay long as its not warm enough yet.
It's more spitefulness than stupidity - they are bullies and because I live alone and don't have any back up, I'm an easy target especially if I speak up about anything they do that affects me or my house or the wildlife and it takes a lot for me to do that because I know they'll do something back. They are not reasonable people.
Wouldn't it be nice if your birds make your neighbors finally decide to move 😜😉 I say feed them all you want 😊. The birds aren't going to stop eating. Birds can fly and I doubt if all your neighbors contraptions will phase them in the least.😉🤗Good afternoon evening all.
Latest anti bird news - The foil strips the neighbours put up didn't deter the birds at all and ended up wrapped around their own poles or tangled in my tree with the birds sat next to them, so now they have added 4 windmills with additional foil strips every couple of feet. It's blinking noisy out there with them all fluttering and I hope this won't scare the birds away. I'm certainly not going to stop feeding them when they have hungry babies to feed. I'm sure that request will come soon enough though.
I don't know why they are making such a fuss this now, I've been feeding them for years - it probably is more about having a go at me than the birds.
As it looks like a fairground attraction now, can anyone lend me a 12 bore for some target practice ? I may win a coconut if I hit one.
How about I ship you a AR-15Good afternoon evening all.
Latest anti bird news - The foil strips the neighbours put up didn't deter the birds at all and ended up wrapped around their own poles or tangled in my tree with the birds sat next to them, so now they have added 4 windmills with additional foil strips every couple of feet. It's blinking noisy out there with them all fluttering and I hope this won't scare the birds away. I'm certainly not going to stop feeding them when they have hungry babies to feed. I'm sure that request will come soon enough though.
I don't know why they are making such a fuss this now, I've been feeding them for years - it probably is more about having a go at me than the birds.
As it looks like a fairground attraction now, can anyone lend me a 12 bore for some target practice ? I may win a coconut if I hit one.
