WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

Will be filling up the bird feeders, ready for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

 

Every year its the same I don't think there system can cope with all the imput

 

Built this up for mother today...took 15mins

Plan on sorting out the abandonned mess of her back garden. Need to change it to low maintenance as it's just awful.

All I seem to do when I visit is weeding the garden

 

Thanks for the heads up, I've never done it before but maybe everyone is rushing to do it first thing in the morning? Take down what you see and send the info over at a later time when the birds have gone to bed?

That is lush @Snorky85 , the one I want! You have a lucky mam

edit: will be filling bird feeders up too and doing the bird watch

 

I gave up doing the garden birdwatch count because the hour I would pick all the birds decided to clear off and only came back after the hour was up and to be honest my days are precious enough without spending it standing by the kitchen sink for an hour on the off chance the birds are going to appear and why should I do the RSPB's job for them as they are getting paid enough out of the subscriptions we have paid every years for the last 37 years so let them count the garden birds

Yesterday while washing up I counted seven male blackbirds in my garden al together,this morning there was just four so there are three missing from the total in just twenty four hours,whereas tomorrow morning we could be back to seven or even eight.

A few years ago the RSPB was estimating that 6,000,000 wild garden birds are taken by people's cats each year,well how do they know that,do they have teams sitting in people's houses up and down the country every day counting the demise of some poor Robin to the local cat population,I think not...

PS,And another thing if those people that are counting the birds in their gardens for an hour how do they know that they are not counting the same birds that are going round and round the different gardens looking for food,so there might not be three sparrows in a garden it could be the same one flying into next doors garden in that hour and then coming back to my garden etc,or am I missing something in this big bird count

 

They check cat poo for bird rings

 

Thank you Shiney , I would love to come down, unfortunately its over a 3hr drive each way, I would have to make plans spending some time down there, maybe a night in Canterbury, will see what holidays the wife has nearer the time

 

Bird rings?

 

Thank you Shiney, 2 hours 15 minutes is not bad, I can get on the A1 in 15 minuets from home, I am not one for hanging around myself , we do like historic towns, I metal detect at Blyth you will pass it on the A1 just before Doncaster, will see nearer the time if wife can get time off, she works weekends.

 

What jobs are we doing in the kitchen...
Re-potting a dracena
Re-potting an amaryllis/hippeastrum, it's given me a new leaf so thought I'd give him some love back.
Potting up 4 lupin bare-roots
Starting off begonia corms....
Potting up some aloe pups
Really need to re-pot my orchid too but I have no orchid compost.. wondering if I mix a bit of normal mpc and woodchip would do? But I have no clear pots either. Ho hum.