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so at the end of April 2019 i put in a new pond a 70 litre preformed liner pond by john brace, on Flickr June 23rd after some planting the large plant at the back left is euonyumus fortunie emerald and gold in front of that is a potentilla round the pond is a bee and butterfly seed mix mainly of poppy's and Calendula along the right hand side is a fuchsia hellebore and a hardy geranium with violas along the front also to be seen is a lavender at the bottom left pond by john brace, on Flickr July 25th things have grown a bit and buzzing with bees and insects garden by john brace, on Flickr next the front gardens turn John

i have found on of the reasons the feeders are a bit quiet the blue tits using the nest box are getting territorial and chasing other birds off the feeders today i have seen the blue tits courtship feeding of each other John

not sure if that is my bad spelling or auto correct that's a very nice looking garden John

this started back at the start of 2018 when watching a nature program about how to help nature in your garden (may have been springwatch) so Clare the wife asked me if we could make a small part of the garden nature friendly (not that it was nature unfriendly) so the small area behind the bird feeders was to be made over so a trip to the garden centre to look for some plants first was a pyracantha as the blackbirds love the berry's (at the back of the picture below) the next two plants had to be bee friendly so we picked centaurea (middle of below picture) and a Salvia (front of below picture surrounded in netting to stop the pigeons trampling it to death) they where picked as they seemed to be the ones with the most bees on them in the garden centre garden by john brace, on Flickr now that is not the end of the story i then caught the wildlife gardening bug which has lead to a large garden make over next came a pond after seeing an a program about a pond in a washing up bowl so ta the start of 2019 this what i ended up with pond by john brace, on Flickr i was not very happy with this so the next chapter will be pond MK 2 Please feel free to add your own photos and ideas to this thread John

since lock down started i have been getting less and less birds to the point now all i am getting is the blue tits using the nest box plus the sparrows nesting over the road we have a large park just up the road so maybe with no one out they are getting lots of natural food? John

37101 by john brace, on Flickr 37101 by john brace, on Flickr 37104 by john brace, on Flickr 37109 by john brace, on Flickr 37116 by john brace, on Flickr

i have 65 sightings over the period 87-90 it was always on the Eastgate cement trains

31117 looking a bit sad 31117 by john brace, on Flickr 20077 by john brace, on Flickr odd one out 31215 with no head code box 31215 by john brace, on Flickr 31302 with extra grills for having an uprated engine for a while 31302 by john brace, on Flickr

ok a few more from me 37053 by john brace, on Flickr 37066 37262 37116 37066 by john brace, on Flickr 37069 by john brace, on Flickr 37083 by john brace, on Flickr 37095 by john brace, on Flickr

a few from me 37009 by john brace, on Flickr not all loco on works test train where spotless 37032 by john brace, on Flickr 37048 by john brace, on Flickr 37048 by john brace, on Flickr 37048 by john brace, on Flickr

Tesco have a large delivery depot at gatwick use both for store and home delivery john

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it's all go in the garden this morning both the pigeons and blue tits at it making babies John

went to Salisbury's tonight got everything we need except pasta eggs and tinned tomatoes John

been out in the garden all day doing some work had a robin following me around all day looking for an easy meal i think the birds have lookouts it is amazing i nip into the house for 5 seconds and the feeders are full of birds mind you the feeders are not so busy at the moment as i have been doing a lot of work in the garden of late due to wind damage the blue tits are still busy in and out of the nest box building the nest John

went shopping last night tried 3 supermarkets got a few odd bits but they all looked like they had been done over i have taken this morning off work to try and get some food before we starve John

today the blue tits have been taking nesting material into the nest box John

well i now know how they got my mum's details Virgin media hack

Denmark hill 12-02-20 66570 by john brace, on Flickr 66759 by john brace, on Flickr 66018 by john brace, on Flickr 66765 by john brace, on Flickr 66737 caught me out and i had to slow a shutter speed 66737 by john brace, on Flickr Harringay 66768 by john brace, on Flickr

we have quit a few sparrows in our area but only see them on the feeders in bad weather or having dust baths on the veg plot goldfinches up to 30 plus at times John

been out in the garden today doing a bit of tidying up while up on the step ladder pruning the buddleia lower in the buddleia was a blue tit he was shouting at me he was not happy at all so a got down walk to the other end of the garden so he could feed also seen today long tailed tits and my first siskin of the year John

my Mum got caught out my one this morning pretending to be from virgin they told her that the payment had bounced and need card details thankfully she phoned me afterwards i got her to go to the bank got a stop on the card before any money taken out John

we have road works outside our Salisbury's super store the road that go into the car park comes back out on to the main road about a quarter of a mile further up the road well all the idiots have been going into the car park trying to jump the Queue result grid lock in the car park took me over an hour to get out after doing the shopping John

Ealing broadway 28-01-20 66621 by john brace, on Flickr 66523 by john brace, on Flickr