"Sacha" wrote in message
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High winds again tonight for the third night in a row. We seem to be
having
a recently established pattern of fairly pleasant days, getting colder in
the afternoon and then with these high winds at night. The first blast
down
the chimney tonight was so loud that I thought it was a muffled explosion
somewhere. In warmer months we get sulky days and then the sun comes out
at
5pm. I have no idea if it's weather in the region in general, or because
we
are located between moor and sea but changeable weather is a phrase that
could have been coined for our area!
The upside is that some daffs have very promising and ripe buds on them
and
once those and some more snowdrops start to open, I'll feel very confident
of spring arriving soon.
The birds are behaving strangely too. Jackdaws have started chittering
away
on top of my study chimney and sparrows are flying up into the eaves as if
inspecting new homes - I saw at least half a dozen do that this morning.
And a male blackbird perched on the fatball and seed feeder outside my
(first floor) study window today. This is the fifth time I've seen him do
that this year and is something I've never seen before. He's pecking at
the
fatball, not the seeds. Instead of being on a stable and flat bird table,
he's clinging to a 'blowing in the wind' arrangement, which is something I
thought blackbirds really didn't like?
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk

Very windy here too which is not surprising, I think we are THE windy city!
Just took a Woodside dog out for a walk around the Plym and it was raining
and blowing...let's you know you're alive. There were some sort of geese (I
think) settled in a nearby field.

I have found recently that if you get those large pomegranites that taste
nothing like pomegranites and cut the top off and spike them on a post, the
blackbirds have a lovely time pecking the fruit out. Also saw a fox along
the beach by Kingsand go by with a rabbit in it's mouth yesterday. It never
saw me and just carried on.


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Rowdens Reservoir Allotments
Best Allotment Site in Plymouth
Plymouth In Bloom Gold Award 2007
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