So we've been in the new place around a month and it's been pretty frantic organising , moving boxes around, unpacking, moving boxes back, trying bits in different places, then putting them back in boxes ! - but progress is being made not least in deciding what we might change. Sally has been much more successful at organising stuff and finding the right people than I have (I've generally failed at the first hurdle on most attempts).
We have - Got the communications up and running, fitted an alarm, bought a new mower, got the wasps nests removed (but left the bees) found someone to cut the field (at last !) although this still has to be done, got a builder to brick up an inside doorway, found man to build us a wardrobe, ordered a new chicken house to arrive on Adie's birthday, got samples for carpets and the list continues... We now found out that 4 of the ducks are males, 2 females - recipe for a few fights we think.
Birds in the garden feeders remain the previous list - although the Long-tailed tits are fairly regular and not once at Greyhound did they visit a feeder and Siskins are daily visitors and at a guess have bred locally. Blackcap and Chiffchaff are still around and I saw 3 young with the Bullfinch family. The Tawny Owl was given away by a frantic flock of smaller birds and was on a low perch, which I managed to show to Sally and Adie before it looked round at took flight as soon as it saw us. I added 5 new birds to the list at the weekend, which were Song Thrush a flyover Raven, a Hobby and a Great Black-backed Gull and a fleeting Spotted Flycatcher (now up to 43). Deer are still appearing daily in the garden and often there is own sitting in the middle of the lawn early morning and having rescued a Rose from Greyhound that had previously been rescued from my place in the Cotswolds and has been with us for c14 years, the Deer have munched it down to virtually nothing !.
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Alas poor Rose, I knew him well. RIP
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