Strictly Parsonal

2009-06-07T13:04:00.000-07:00

I saw a spotted woodpecker in the garden on Friday - couldn't tell whether it was a Great or a Lesser, but it was a female (it had no red on its head).

2009-04-14T09:20:00.000-07:00

Today, Cecilia and I saw yellow butterfly we think was a 'brimstone', and a 'green-veined white' - or it could have been a 'wood white'. We need to get better at this identification business.

No unusual birds today, though our regular visitors are nice and varied. Today, as every day, we have seen blackbirds, dunnocks, robins, chaffinches, blue tits and great tits, goldfinches, greenfinches, starlings, and, of course, two or three fat wood pigeons.

And there was a frog 'sunning itself' in the pond.

2009-04-13T15:31:00.001-07:00

Cecilia has started to look specifically for butterflies. Today she saw two Small Whites.

2009-04-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

Spurred on by Cecilia and Sarah, I have dusted off this old Blog which I will update and then try to point out to friends and family (through Facebook?)

I intend to use it to record events and sightings in the garden - to prevent future arguments about what exact date frogspawn appeared in the pond, etc.

Garden news 11 March 2007

2007-03-11T04:00:00.000-07:00

There has been frogspawn in the pond for two weeks now.
Sadly, I have just had to clear the rotting, bloated remains of two dead (and beheaded?) frogs from the grass by the pond. I don't know what might have got them.
Nothing special in the bird community; blue tits, green finches, great tits on the feeders, blackbirds, wood pigeons, collared doves, and sparrows (or might they be dunnocks?) picking around under the feeders.
The little winter flowering tree has been a treat since before Christmas, and is still going strong with its blossom. It is now being challenged by the flowering prunus whose blossoms are starting to flower. Very nice.

Introduction

2005-03-09T12:13:00.000-08:00

I'm hoping to pick the brains of all you clever, creative, imaginative Bloggers out there, to help me make the best of my other, serious Blogs (which don't yet exist - because I don't know how to make them 'sparkle')

Feel like showing off your knowledge and experience?

Just show me how good Blogging can be.

In anticip.......,
Colin