Sunday musings (day 308 since lockdown one - day 20 of Tier 5 full lockdown)

[kazzy_cee]

Sometimes it's hard to remember I live in the South East of England and you look out into the garden mid-January when it's a frosty start to Sunday and ring-necked parakeets are on the bird feeders....

Comments

[kathyh]

Those parakeets are everywhere. They have completely colonised our local parks but I don't think we've had them in our garden ... yet.

We decided staying in was a good idea too!

[kazzy_cee]

The parakeets are always remarked upon by visitors as they are so exotic looking, but they are noisy and annoying most of the time and they can demolish a feeder full of peanuts in a couple of days. There's talk of culling them again in the Spring with some hawks as they did that a few years ago when they decimated some local crops, and it's probably for the best as the local flock is around 40-50 birds now!

[curiouswombat]

You have a wonderful selection of birds! I think I get about half of those.

I had almost forgotten Burns Night, and we ate the haggis out of the freezer a couple of months ago. I will have to do it a few days late. I have never come across cranachan being made with shortbread crumbs - that would be easier than the traditional toasted oats, and probably even better :) I must try that sometime, too.

[kazzy_cee]

It did contain a few honey roasted oats as well and the two together was very nice indeed!

[curiouswombat]

Ooh - that sounds even better!

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Your bird feeders sound extremely productive! Are you going to do the garden birdwatch next weekend?

[kazzy_cee]

Yes this will be the forth year I’ve done the bird watch. It’s rather nice just to sit and look at the birds for an hour :)

We are very near a lot of woodland so I think that’s why we get so many birds. Particularly the woodpeckers who all live in there.

[slaymesoftly]

Good idea to count the Zoom people. That is contact for sure.

Very cold here, but it's January. That's exceptionally cold for you, thought, isn't it?

[kazzy_cee]

Zoom people are real people LOL!

It is still cold here, but no more snow thank goodness! It's about average, but not nice for walking.