Saturday 5 November 2016

White Stones + Robin Investigates

Fortunately there has been enough Sunlight and heat these past few days for the first of my Lithops (Living Stones) with white flowers to come in to bloom:

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I wonder whether there are any with red flowers. Certainly haven't seen any advertised. What I have done is to buy some seeds of a couple of Lithops varieties I have not seen for sale as mature plants. Not tried growing them from seed before so we shall see what we shall see.

Robin Investigates
I was in and out the back door so I had left it open. As I came back in I heard a suspicious rustling sound. On investigation I spotted a Robin disappearing in my bedroom. It had flown in the conservatory, through the kitchen, along the passage, in the living room and then to the bedroom. I shut the living room door to block that escape route and keep Penny out of the way. Opened the front door, which opens from the living room. Crawled in the bedroom on all fours so as to get past the Robin so it could fly over me back to the living room. Of course it went past the open front door to the other end of the room so more crawling to persuade it to fly in the right direction. Fortunately it did and flew out of the door. Phew!
Why not open the bedroom window? I have net curtains which would have to be moved, window unlocked, etc. which could have panicked the bird more than me slowly moving around. The Robin didn't seem at all upset but just flew generally in the direction I wanted and an open door was a larger target for it to aim for.

6 comments:

  1. love the blooming stones! and i'm always grateful when a bird goes back out on its own instead of having to be captured in a towel!

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    1. TWG: They are fascinating plants. Fortunately the only thing which has needed help to remove was a bat which got indoors a few years ago.

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  2. Those blooming stones are amazing but I especially like the story of the robin flying in and then flying out. I would say your house is bird friendly!

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    1. Mick: I simply adore those plants. A few years ago one day when I left the front door open I walked in the living room to find a Robin standing on top of the TV. Some seem to be very bold.

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  3. Remember a pigeon causing a soot fall at my folks place, stunned bird ended up sitting in the fireplace! Got it out of a window

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  4. Simon: When we had a fireplace blocked at the bottom for some years there were quite a few mummified Starlings found when it was unblocked.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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