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Having a quiet day today. We had the grand daddy of all thunder storms last night.My husband slept right through it:rolleyes: The muggy weather has gone and the garden looks washed clean. Although the rain was heavy, we didn't lose any plants.
I'm off the have a session on my exercise bike no, in front of the bedroom TV
 
I love the smell of the air after a big storm. Love storms too, by the way, as long as they don´t destroy anything. Hope your bedroom has great big windows which can be opened wide :)
 
The people who had this house before us used to knock the house martin nests down as the birds were building them. And sometimes when the young were hatching. It has taken us 3 years to attract them back.
This morning I drew back the bedroom curtains, pulled up the Venetian blinds and pushed the window further open. There was a flurry of indignant house martins, from under the eaves ,who swooped around the close with a 'how very dare you' look on their faces as they past me!
 
Our equivalent bird in Australia is the Welcome Swallow-
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I love swallows! We used to have a colony of them in the stables until that was no longer allowed due to the risk of disease :( No matter that swallows and pigs don´t really get the same diseases and we had NO flies and mosquitoes as long as we our little fighter pilot friends around.
 
Little John said:
We have a good bird assortment at our house, found three new species this year, even. I was kind of excited by that.
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How lovely John. We have blue tits,great tits a wren starlings' green finches (now and again,black birds thrushes and umpteen sparrows. Every October,regular as Exlax, we have a buzzard drop in.Sit on the fence for a while then go. We don't see hide nor hair of him/her the rest of the year
 
I had a lovely surprise this morning. My husband and our neighbour across the close from us,were, as I thought, looking up gardening tips on our computer.The man's wife and I were fathoming out a very complicated crochet pattern.
The men came downstairs and said that they had just booked, off the cuff, a holiday village centred coach holiday for the 4 of us in February.We will be away 5 days.Everything is included...the cabin (centrally heated, but I am taking my hot water bottle) All meals,not just bed and breakfast with an evening meal, but all meals.Free entry to all museums etc we will visit on the coach. We have a cabin with a little sitting area. It was on offer, dirt cheap for the over 60's.
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Our usual feeder visitors are
  • cardinals
  • blue jays (a personal favorite)
  • 3-4 different kind of woodpecker
  • tufted titmouses? Titmice? Either way, it's an opportunity for childish humor
  • nuthatch
  • chickadees (another favorite)
  • mourning doves
  • red-breast robin
  • white-breast sparrow
  • chipping sparrow
  • junco
  • grackles
  • cat birds
  • mockingbirds
  • occasional house finches
  • occasional goldfinches
  • occasional wren
  • far too many house sparrows (trailer trash of the bird world)
This year's new visitors were a ruby-throated grosbeak (just sits on the feeder at dusk for 30 minutes and eats slowly), an eastern phoebe (not a feeder visitor, but still cool to see one eating bugs), and an eastern towhee. We also have a red-tail hawk nearby, and we've been visited by a cooper's hawk (in the form of taking out a dove). And there are always turkey vultures and black vultures around.

Looking at that list, you'd think I lived in an aviary, not a small city!
 
That´s so nice, Polly! It may still be a while away but it´s something to look forward to, surely. I´m a bit jealous of your avian abundance, not to mention LJ´s! I grew up so spoiled with my parents´ garden and now I live in an apartment with exactly one windowsill. O well, all the more to enjoy my visits.
 
Little John said:
Our usual feeder visitors are
  • cardinals
  • blue jays (a personal favorite)
  • 3-4 different kind of woodpecker
  • tufted titmouses? Titmice? Either way, it's an opportunity for childish humor
  • nuthatch
  • chickadees (another favorite)
  • mourning doves
  • red-breast robin
  • white-breast sparrow
  • chipping sparrow
  • junco
  • grackles
  • cat birds
  • mockingbirds
  • occasional house finches
  • occasional goldfinches
  • occasional wren
  • far too many house sparrows (trailer trash of the bird world)
This year's new visitors were a ruby-throated grosbeak (just sits on the feeder at dusk for 30 minutes and eats slowly), an eastern phoebe (not a feeder visitor, but still cool to see one eating bugs), and an eastern towhee. We also have a red-tail hawk nearby, and we've been visited by a cooper's hawk (in the form of taking out a dove). And there are always turkey vultures and black vultures around.

Looking at that list, you'd think I lived in an aviary, not a small city!
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Wow! I think I'm going to move next door to Little John. We are on the Welsh borders (English side) sounds like you are in a beautiful unspoilt spot John
 
I am so sorry everyone that I put that ginormous picture on the thread of where we're going on holiday.I was going to put one of the chalet and the island but thought better of it when I saw how the bedroom one turned out
 
Don't worry about it; we're not on dial-up anymore ;) When I visited my parents last March they discovered the 46th bird species to visit their garden since overhauling it a couple of years ago. Not my doing, but I'm going to brag by association.
 
Polly said:
Wow! I think I'm going to move next door to Little John.
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What's funny is that I live in a fairly populous town (small city? not sure) known in the region for its shopping malls and occasional crime stories. And I live on a busy street with a small patch of woods behind me. But that little patch really brings 'em in, it's impressive at times.

LaMaria said:
When I visited my parents last March they discovered the 46th bird species to visit their garden since overhauling it a couple of years ago. Not my doing, but I'm going to brag by association.
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Really, it's the bird's doing, isn't it?
 
Seriously, it's the bird equivalent of "Hey baby, check out my Camaro! I have a Camaro! Look at it! Back off, dude, she likes my Camaro!" It just sounds nicer when you can't understand them, I guess.
 
Yup. Like how 90% of (love) songs sounds way better when you're not listening to the words too closely.
 
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