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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1375 on: 26 February, 2021, 04:21:40 pm »
Kitten biscuits and lots of water, apparently
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1376 on: 12 March, 2021, 09:02:36 am »
We haz frogspawn.
2 or 3 clumps in our tiny pond that weren't there yesterday.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1377 on: 12 March, 2021, 02:26:54 pm »
R3 played 'Poisoning pigeons in the park " this morning 😈

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1378 on: 12 March, 2021, 02:36:21 pm »
Daughter No 2 has Barn Owl chicks in old building nearby. Noisy apparently.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1379 on: 12 March, 2021, 06:58:00 pm »
Lots of blue Bell growth alongside the lanes .to early for flowers yet though 🙂
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1380 on: 12 March, 2021, 07:45:16 pm »
I've had a hunt around all the usual likely spots for frog's pawn but there seems to be none. My sister, whose house is only about 200 yards as the frog flies from mine, has spawn. I don't have a pond. My neighbour does and I had a nose over the wall a few times this week and there's none there.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1381 on: 12 March, 2021, 08:07:23 pm »
There's been frog spawn in our neighbour's garden pond for a couple of days  :thumbsup: I haven't caught Ninkasi trying to eat it yet, though she has had a squitty bot  :demon:

hellymedic

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1382 on: 12 March, 2021, 09:39:33 pm »
Pigeons have returned to our eaves.
I'm hoping there's no established nest there yet.
Man is coming to survey tomorrow.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1383 on: 12 March, 2021, 09:45:21 pm »
The crocuses came up and were just about to open their flowers but Storm Somebody has completely flattened them  :(
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1384 on: 12 March, 2021, 09:56:44 pm »
Neighbour's pond heaving with croaking frogs.


IMG_0973_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1385 on: 16 March, 2021, 04:24:20 pm »
Today, the year's first midge-in-nostril incident.
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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1386 on: 16 March, 2021, 05:01:36 pm »
Today was the first dead bird in the porch of the spring :(
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hellymedic

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1387 on: 16 March, 2021, 09:40:38 pm »
Today, the year's first midge-in-nostril incident.

First mozzie bite of the year...

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1388 on: 17 March, 2021, 09:02:03 am »
First lambs, ryelands.  (And a wee chat with the farmer)

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1389 on: 25 March, 2021, 12:31:44 pm »
Bluebells in full bloom.  In that place where they come out first every year.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1390 on: 25 March, 2021, 12:33:51 pm »
Flat hedgehog, 1st of year :'(

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1391 on: 25 March, 2021, 12:48:50 pm »
I'm declaring the 2021 hayfever season to be officially open.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1392 on: 25 March, 2021, 01:44:12 pm »
Jersey Royals and purple sprouting appearing in the farm shop.  And Brimstones in the garden.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1393 on: 25 March, 2021, 07:42:06 pm »
Magnolias coming into flower 🌼
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1394 on: 26 March, 2021, 03:42:37 pm »
A froglet, that had somehow contrived to get into a bucket, fortunately one with water in the bottom. And a pair of young buzzards, surprisingly (as in 15-20m) low over the adjacent field.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1395 on: 26 March, 2021, 09:55:35 pm »

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1396 on: 27 March, 2021, 06:38:29 am »
Are they croaking bud wei ser  ;D
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1397 on: 29 March, 2021, 07:14:57 pm »
Are they croaking bud wei ser  ;D
If they were, I think Mr. Pingu would have killed them.

I was in the garden digging, raking, planting, sowing and weeding. There was a duet between a blackbird and a wren.

In Priory Park I heard the first chiffchaff of the year and saw a moorhen on her nest.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1398 on: 05 April, 2021, 06:31:42 am »
I saw the first bluebells I'd seen this year. The first just outside of Eton and a small group on the climb up harvest hill near Bourne end  :)
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1399 on: 05 April, 2021, 01:49:11 pm »
Today the farm hedges have long stretches with what looked like white berries as I went past.
Any idea what the bushes might be, please?
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