Friday at the Flicks - Juvenile Blue Tit

A few days ago  a pair of adult Blue Tits brought their youngsters to the Birdy Bistro. Now the little ones come by themselves and happily feed from the peanut feeder:

                        




Have a great weekend observing the wildlife around you.

Guess What

This morning I have another plant for you to guess the identity.




This video shows you all round one flower from this large garden bush which has just about finished flowering now. When in full flower it was an attraction for many different types of bee but, alas, no butterflies this year.

Protecting Monty the Moose

I was putting the sweeper over the carpet when Penny comes rushing past and puts a paw firmly on her Monty the Moose to make sure it didn't get sucked up in the process:

That Mystery Plant

Last Tuesday I showed the buds from one of my house plants and asked if anyone could guess what the plant was. Only Jan was brave enough to have a go. Unfortunately Jan it isn't an orchid. In fact it is a Venus Fly Trap. I have had a few over the years but this is the first time I have seen one produce flowers; and over night the first one opened. Nothing spectacular but none the less interesting, to me anyway.



The flower spikes really are long compared with the size of the plant.

Friday at the Flicks - Garden Snail - Juvenile Birds

I was partly wrong the other day when I said only slugs and snails like all the wet weather we have been having. I forgot to include the Blackbirds. They love it when the ground becomes waterlogged as it drives the worms to the surface!

Here is the snail I saw the other day:



There have been quite a few different fledgelings visiting the garden, usually with the adults:



Have a great weekend observing the wildlife around you.

Great Tits - House Sparrow

This morning I spent some time watching adult Great Tits feeding a brood of three or four fledglings. I wonder if this is a second hatching or a pair who left things late in getting started.
They were right down the bottom of the garden so this is a small crop:
 
Who ordered the chopped peanut?


The House Sparrows which nest under the tiles of my property have raised quite a few babies and the parents are used to me walking right under their nesting site. This adult male was quite content for me to get reasonably close for a portrait shot:

Something Has to Like This Weather

Hardly a day seems to go by without several doses of heavy rain. Today it was a case of sunny intervals mixed with showers where the rain came down like stair rods. The only creatures in my garden which seem to enjoy continual damp conditions are slugs and snails, like this one spotted as the rain stopped for a few minutes: