Peggy's Mundane Thread

"Twitcher" ..... be buggered! I( enjoy looking at birds.

All I saw today of any note was a moorhen & that's only because I've never seen one before on the bank of the river. A very low tide so I guess it came in to feed in the mud.

Twitcher!!!!

I've had an Anguis fragilis in my back passage for some days now. It's only a little one. Not sure whether to leave it there or take it out where it can get some sun.

That would depend on whether you deem your back passage to be its natural habitat, I guess.

knecht wrote:

I've had an Anguis fragilis in my back passage for some days now. It's only a little one. Not sure whether to leave it there or take it out where it can get some sun.

They do like a nice bit of sun I get them in my compost heap I have never to my certain knowledge had any in my back passage.

If you saw my back passage you'd know it wasn't really a nice place to be all the time. It probably can't really get out of there without help.

knecht wrote:

If you saw my back passage you'd know it wasn't really a nice place to be all the time. It probably can't really get out of there without help.

....which begs the question, (tho' I hesitate to ask) how did it get in?

My bins and I are off to Stover Park today.

And tomorrow my bins and I are off to Hampshire oh and I nearly forgot the wife's coming with me.

Budget 2013

Saw a pair of diving ducks in Peterhead this afternoon, will look them up tomorrow, windy as feck here, heading SE towards the channel.

Passed the Bass Rock this morning, Gannets, Shearwater, fulmar

Czarcasm wrote:

knecht wrote:

If you saw my back passage you'd know it wasn't really a nice place to be all the time. It probably can't really get out of there without help.

....which begs the question, (tho' I hesitate to ask) how did it get in?

Have you considered popping along to casualty......or waiting for a Doctors appointment......have you been taking paracetamol for it ?

Recent sightings of note on my hols, alpine accentor, moussiers redstart, black redstart, house bunting, spoonbill, glossy ibis, bald ibis, flamingo, golden eagle, alpine chough, black winged stilt, large vultures (not sure what type) hoopoes, golden oriels, bee eaters, egrets of various kinds, avocets and millions of swallows making their way north.
I actually saw 3 swallows in Tavvy yesterday which is quite early.

pepsipete wrote:

Hobby is a great spot.

We see them in the valley where I live, they turn up with the Swallows, they hunt them in the morning and evening, very quick bird.
Yesterday I walked up through my land and found a Phesant that had been killed and partly eaten by I think a Goshawk, we do see them about in the winter, went to check it this morning to see if it had returned but a fox had picked up the carcasse in the night so no joy, fox will have cubs now, need to watch the chickens.

Three swallows in Tavvy in mid-March in this weather! That's more interesting than the rest!

Never seen a goshawk. That would be interesting. Not sure I'd even recognise one.

me neither, some knowledgeable person usually points out things like that.

No comment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218

I made a cake today. However, since this is something I don't think I've ever done before - or at least not as an adult - it's not really mundane.

Welcome back Pegster,
@pete, the goshawk is like a large sparrow hawk, more sort of carrion crow sized with a bit of a white patch on its rump, I think there are more around than you would realise I have a mate who is a falconer and having seen his fly I then recognised them here, I think they were always here I just thought they were sparrow hawks.
As for the Swallows they generally arrive here around mid April but we do see them earlier, I haven't seen them since I wonder if they have gone back to Spain, I know I would it's brass monkeys here.

I have loads of videos and bird identifying books, its just a case of getting them to stay still long enough to get the bins on them.

Peggy * wrote:

I made a cake today. However, since this is something I don't think I've ever done before - or at least not as an adult - it's not really mundane.

Peggy's light and moist sponge cake is being delivered to the mod room as we speak.

I was once in a field with a group of random friends & acquaintances at a music gathering. Suddenly two or three of them pointed up into the sky and said "Oh, that's interesting - an osprey", fairly calmly.

There, way, way up, so small it was no more than a tiny speck was a bird. I could hardly see it - still less identify it! Nobody had binoculars. At that point, I decided my fairly lowly place in the pecking order (pun intended).

Greenjock wrote:

Peggy * wrote:

I made a cake today. However, since this is something I don't think I've ever done before - or at least not as an adult - it's not really mundane.

Peggy's light and moist sponge cake is being delivered to the mod room as we speak.

Not far off, as it goes: said cake is now in a tin which took some lifting up onto the top of the cupboard.

It's a carrot cake, though. Five a day innit.

I'm just proving my bread for the second time.