Comments | curiouswombat: BBC v BBC!!

curiouswombat

BBC v BBC!!

Jun 27, 2019 18:47

We are enjoying watching our resident pair of blackbirds dashing to and fro feeding their nestlings. They seem to average a visit with a full beak every 10-15 minutes from dawn to dusk. Sometimes they forage in our back garden and we can see whether there is a beak-full of caterpillar or a beak-full of grass seed heads ( Read more... )

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thismaz June 28 2019, 05:39:41 UTC

Umm... I don't suppose you can manage some strategically placed partial pruning?

curiouswombat June 28 2019, 07:28:30 UTC

To be honest the whole top five foot or so needs to go - which might be a bit disturbing for them :)

I must take a picture of the tree - I haven't seen anything like it before. I think it started as a bush many, many, years ago. There seem to be a number of trunks, or possibly one very twisted one about 6ft in circumference, the branches start about a foot above the ground, the whole thing is a dense block of branches and leaves that is about 15ft high.

kazzy_cee June 28 2019, 06:59:02 UTC

Oh dear! 1st world problems! A friend had the same issue with a wisteria.

curiouswombat June 28 2019, 07:30:54 UTC

1st world problem indeed. As I was saying to Maz, I must take a picture of the offending bit of greenery - it's no wonder the birds like it as it is pretty much impregnable I would think.

elwenlj June 28 2019, 08:45:27 UTC

Lol!! Looks like you'll have to give it a hard pruning at the end of the season this year, so that you don't have the same problem next year. I don't think you're missing much on the TV anyway. I have given up on it most nights and have taken to reading instead.

curiouswombat June 28 2019, 08:58:43 UTC

Yep - a major pruning is in order I think.

I quite like one of the discovery type channels on in the background whilst I knit or read. But music works...

cairistiona7 June 28 2019, 15:01:41 UTC

Oh dear. It's awful when nature decides to mess with human technology! I'm glad you're waiting, though.

We have to keep a lane clear in our woods in order to get wireless Internet connectivity, but so far we haven't run into any pruning issues brought on by nesting birds. *fingers crossed* Hopefully by year's end, the fiber optic cable for better Internet will finally be laid along our road, so then we can let the trees and nature have its way again.

curiouswombat June 28 2019, 17:40:41 UTC

It would be awful to 'evict' them now so we will wait until we see no more activity and assume the birds have flown :)

We have fibre cable to a junction box about 100m away and then ordinary cable from there to the house. One day they might put fibre optic from the junction box to the houses, but we aren't holding our breath! Fortunately the current system is very good.

ysilme June 29 2019, 10:07:03 UTC

LOL I was really wondering what was behind this entry subject! How lovely that you can observe the BBC so close, although the price might be annoying. I sincerely hope they're fledging (? sounds odd, but the dictionary says this is the translation) soon!
I don't even know if our satellite dish still works, I can't remember when we've last watched proper TV. These days, it's either DVDs or streaming. We've spent the first half of the year with doing a full re-watching of Star Trek: Enterprise, and now we're catching up with GoT (we stopped with Season 5).

curiouswombat June 29 2019, 16:05:38 UTC

Yes - fledging is the right word :) Hopefully they will be ready to move out soon.

We have a number of programmes we watch regularly on the satellite so it is a bit of a nuisance at present.

ysilme June 29 2019, 22:39:50 UTC

Thanks!
And ah, bother indeed. Do you have the option to perhaps watch your programmes with a bit of delay in the channel's online service/media library? All German channels seem to have these these days, which seems to be very convenient, although I haven't tried it out myself yet. But even so, I keep my fingers crossed for a soon moving-out!

curiouswombat June 30 2019, 09:09:25 UTC

We do watch quite a few things on the iPlayer - mainly documentaries and some current affairs programmes. But some things are just easier watched live - like the daily tea-time quiz show Pointless.

I think the fledglings are beginning to fly - I have seen Papa blackbird with one of them at the front of the house this morning and am almost certain I saw one of them in the back garden a few minutes ago.