The Sun

Neither did I until someone pointed it out, LOL :D Most of the seeds are gone now so need to get some more this morning. The remains of the last 4 pots of water are still solid under the bird table where I cleaned them out to put in fresh water!

 

Was out in the garden at the weekend and i saw and heard a woodpecker, Not sure which one but the back of its head was red and its body was green, I hear woodpeckers but rearly see them so that was quite cool.

 

Was that it, MArk?
http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/green-woodpecker.htm

or

http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/g-s-woodpecker.htm

probably the green one!

 

The strange thing about the Woodpeckers is that the Green on feeds on the ground and the 'Greater Spotted feeds off the peanut containers - therree are lots of both types round here possibly because of the trees and the sandy soil which yields millions of ants?

 

This is a funny thread.It started off talking about the sun in the garden and has now got onto feeding the birds which we already have a thread going on the Wildlife section.We all seem to be mixing up the threads and I for one are guilty of that :D :D No disrespect to anyone on here talking about feeding the birds :D :D

 

I agree :D :D and my garden still hasn't got any sun yet and one very dreary little snowdrop that looks upset to be there. Just starting to get sun hitting the top of the shed about half an hour before it disappears for the night. I reckon end of this month the sun may even hit the tops of a few plants in the east bed.

 

Only one snowdrop flowered!! Lots of bulbs appeared but none opened so as a lot needed separating anyway I took the action to move them all away from the west fence were there is no sun or signs of the sun. The rest of the garden is still without the sun but it is starting to lower itself slowly to the eastern bed and maybe there'll be sun by the end of next month - he says hopefully.

 

If you have little sun in your garden maybe you should experiment with some mirrors in your garden to reflect the light, and also makes your garden look bigger??? crazy idea I know, but I saw somebody once who made it work for them!

 

I have been toying with the idea of one mirror somewhere in a border to reflect light.Another suggestion by a gardening friend is that the borders were the bulbs weren't flowering may need some serious fertiliser to get them going and enrich the soil.

 

Are you sure they are all snowdrops?. Whatever, moving them in the green should be fine. If they are producing leaves they will be feeding the bulb - perhaps add a little potash rich fertiliser.

 

Thanks Fran. No they are not all snowdrops but the position is so bad I thought I'd reposition all from that bed and use it for shade loving shrubs instead.

 

Well don't forget that snowdrops are a bulb of the deciduous woodland, like bluebells. Flowering in partial shade, before the canopy of leaves break.

Good luck with them, and I look forward to hearing what the others are.

 

Sun finally reached one of my plants in the sunny bed yesterday

The sun seems to be moving quite quickly up the garden now so maybe have most of the garden in the the sun for short periods by the end of this month or so.

 

Dendro, sorry for the delayed response, been busy.
Once again you've come up trumps, The woodpecker is the green one. Saw it again over the weekend. We had glorious weather, Hope you guys had the same.