What's Buzzin' or Flying Near You Today..? MK 3..

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    Hi Strongy lovely images my friend:)
     
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    Thankyou Woo,I haven't been out with the camera for a few days, too many things going on this week. :smile:
     
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    The soil is dry enough for the Sparrows to to have a dust/sand bath, the bare veg patch is their favourite place.
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      Lovely pics :dbgrtmb:
       
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      Shiney, what an incredible lot of birds in your garden all at once. There are gold crests around we have a pair regularly visiting, aren't they tiny. We get through an awful lot of seed and fat/seed filled coconuts too. Still it is wonderful just to watch them through the windows having their petty squabbles.
       
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        There were about 8 goldfinches each on the 2 different feeders at 8.30am today. Like Gatwick Airport it was. Their colours are becoming quite vibrant now.
        No camera to hand then but got some a bit later.
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          Hello here's a cold little Sparrow:heehee:

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            He does look cold doesn't he, Woo?:snork: I'm glad to see the Sparrow is making a comeback after it declined a few years ago. I've got Blackbirds in more numbers in the garden too than I had a year or too ago. They're having disputes as to who the garden belongs too and chase each other from shrub to shrub:coffee: !!
             
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            Sparrows my worst enemy! How many would you like Armandii? :gaah:
             
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              What's wrong with Sparrows??, Sheal:snork:
               
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                Now, now, Sheal :nonofinger: You have to feel sorry for sparrows!


                We 'ad a bleedin' sparrow
                wot lived up a bleedin' spout
                one day the bleedin' rain came down
                and washed the bleeder out

                and as 'e lay half drownded
                down in the bleedin' street
                'e begged that bleedin' rainstorm
                to bathe 'is bleedin' feet

                and then the bleedin' sun came out
                dried up the bleedin' rain
                so our bleedin' little sparrow
                'e climbed up 'is spout again

                but O, the cruel sparrowhawk
                he spied 'im in 'is snuggery
                'e sharpened up 'is bleeedin' claws
                and ripped 'im out by thuggery

                just then, a bleedin' sporting type
                wot 'ad a bleedin' gun
                'e spies that bleedin' sparrowhawk
                and blasts 'is bleedin' fun

                the moral to this story
                is plain to everyone
                that them wot's up the bleedin' spout
                don't get no bleedin' fun
                 
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                  A harrowing sparrowing tale:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                   
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                  Everything! I've been trying to stop them from nesting under my roof tiles for the last few years, it's like living with a house full of budgies! It doesn't help that my neighbours feed them just ten feet away. :wallbanging:
                   
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                  Shoot the neighbours, not the Sparrows!!!:snork:
                   
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                    Actually, it would solve both problems Armandii, I'd be doing time in a brand new prison here. :heehee:
                     
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