Good Morning

better fat than thin george, thats what i always say ......when we got our new dog three weeks ago she was very thin, not what we expected........she has piled the weight on now and looks as she should do .

that's good news David

are you on pigeonchat misty

George & Morgan wrote:

are you on pigeonchat  misty

No George have enough problems on this site with this machine.

Only other one I am on is Quora, was on facebook but lost the password and cannot be bothered to sort it out, got fed up with all updating etc;

Also lost interest in Quara but look in on the odd occasion.

Still says I have to update this that and the other, go through the rigmarole and says password out of date but it is a saved password.

Then says get another password, try and it says will send a code to your e mail, the one I cannot get to, so gave up, my son is fully conversant with how a laptop works and he could not sort it out.

So I am happy as it is, unless of course there are important e mails.

Regards.

felt horrible all day, feeling better now ........

will find something to do indoors, bound to be something , too cold and windy outside .

windy here but strong sunshine

was planning on going for corn this morning, couldnt be b othered......have enough to last a week maybe but i`ll go one morning during the week .

just been told bird i bought will be here Wednesday did not know any extra birds courier was only £5 a bird if known that would have bid for one or 2 more but all sold now

would have been handy to know before hand george, which courier is it ...?

there own David

George & Morgan wrote:

there own David

It an't a good morning.

If Israel retaliates in a manner unacceptable to the world in general as foretold
there will be world fireworks.

Far more serious than bonfire night.

Regards.

typical israel, they attack the Palestinians and treat them like sh*t, yet when the Palestinians retaliate israel go overboard .......

its all part of israels plan for taking the al-aqsa mosque and building the jewish temple of king david, which will fulfil their prophecy of the son of god returning to earth .......

went for corn this morning, 2 bags of superfly and 1 bag of tk conditioner ......£48

pric3 going up every time i go , getting beyond a joke now

i have order 2 bags of corn was £30 will see what it is now

George & Morgan wrote:

i have order 2 bags of corn was  £30 will see what it is now

Taking fanciers for a ride.

Wants some smart person to do away with polishing and fancy labels and bags.

The time to start polishing corn is when the wild birds start doing it

But not only in our sport but every business is taking advantage of the present situation and raising prices disproportionate to the circumstances.

Human nature.

Regards.

i dont think theres any need for it now, i think they have just become greedy .....

Stopped buying seed for the wild birds, even those with no wheat have a fair percentage of seed the birds just throw out to get to the reasonable stuff.

Just have fat balls, coconut, pea nuts and some other kind of fat square blocks.

All have gone up in price.

Soon have to go pub singing to afford anything.

Regards.

i feed a couple of wood pigeons every day who live around my house, they show no fear of me or the dog, and come down eating the pigeon corn i give them, then they go over to a lawnmower grass box i have filled with water for them to get a drink .......hopefully they should be ok over the winter .

Wood pigeons compete with the squirels David for the pea nuts, the pea nuts are in a special little wooden house to stop the pigeons getting at them but they do.

The pigeons have to do airobatics to get one but entertaining.

Just watching them as typing this could almost touch them.

When my son was doing the garden he said the squirels were putting the pea nuts in the planters.

The townies do not come now since I stopped buying wheat for them, was all husk and they ended up leaving it.

Regards.

a lot of wild birds including pigeons will eat porridge oats, just the cheap supermarket stuff in bags, about 70p a kg

Cheaper than any bird seed but you have to make sure it stays dry when you put it out, and sheltered from the wind.

good info colin, we need to look after the animals and birds during the winter, to give them a bit of help .....

David wrote:

good info colin, we need to look after the animals and birds during the winter, to give them a bit of help .....

Second that David, think the weather changes does not help the wild life in general so they do need help.

Said previously and is very sad, we always have a run through the countryside and previously would see all kinds of wild life, ideal open fields woodlands, forrest runs
etc;

Last few times we are lucky if we see the odd crow.

As for feeding the garden birds, think the fat balls are the best bet.

They like bread too but the small birds have no chance here with the seagulls around, we had a pair that nest on the house opposite, a young one we adopted
and used to come and wait for us to feed it, all have vanished, parents and young.

We had tame black birds that we hand fed but they have suddenly vanished.

Think something is turning nature upside down.

Regards.

we see foxes almost every night misty, the one we saw last night was just sat in a garden watching us walk by ...... a big male it was by the looks of it, just looking for food i reckon .

my corn still same price the club do buy in bulk

David wrote:

we see foxes almost every night misty, the one we saw last night was just sat in a garden watching us walk by ...... a big male it was by the looks of it, just looking for food i reckon .

Not too long ago you could go over Olivers Mount, 5 minutes from our house and sit in certain places and see, deer, rabbits, fox, stoat, badgers etc; and countless different species of birds, now nothing.

The mere does have an abundance of water fowl but they are fed every day by the public take my wife to feed them now she is a little mobile, after going out for a meal gets her out, she is fed up with being immobile tis not an ideal situation but many are far worse off.

Got the car back last Wednesday, £420, so far got £100 towards it getting offered that to stop singing in the pubs.

Regards..