"Judith in France" wrote in message
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On Aug 12, 1:58 pm, "Spider" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in
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On Aug 12, 1:23 pm, "Spider" wrote:



"Judith in France" wrote in
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On Aug 12, 12:52 pm, "Spider" wrote:
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Woodpeckers *love* fat balls, esp. the huge ones. An incidental bonus
is
that the ground feeders get the crumbs after the W'pecker has hammered
them
to pieces.

Spider

Spider, oh exalted knowledge of all stuff, yes, I am being sincere, I
have learned a lot of stuff from your postings,

:~) Blush! Ooooh, I've gone all over unnecessary!

tell me, a bird, pecking a hole in a bird box to get to the chicks
inside,
would that
be a woodpecker?

Yes, it's certainly possible. I've seen the Greater Spotted Woodpecker
at
a
nest box in my garden. I asked the Warden of the local wood about it and
he
wasn't in the least surprised. I didn't know whether to be glad I'd seen
'Woody', or to feel sorry for the chicks. (Typical wild life
non-intervention dilema).

As you can tell, I don't know one bird from another,
I even got a gull and a pigeon mixed up the other day.

:~)! Well, the silly things will all have beaks, won't they?! ... and
they
all look the same after a glass of red wine. It's time you dropped a
hint
about a good bird book for Christmas.

Spider
Judith

Yes, they all have beaks and two legs, how on earth am I supposed to
know!!! No more books please, I have a tome that I bought to help
identify mushrooms, unfortunately the colours in the book don't always
match the mushroom.

Judith

Quite. I have that problem with mushroom ident books, but I have one or
two
decent bird books which I find quite helpful. Even so, I occasionally get
muddled.
Well, I'm off to do some gardening now.
All the best,
Spider

Too hot here to go into the garden although I do needs potatoes for
tonight's supper, how is it my husband always disappears when I need
him? :-)

Judith


It's a man thing; they can't help it.

Well, I didn't get a lot done in the garden. A friend came by and asked if
I'd like to go to Homebase. I don't get out much (as the saying goes), so
off we went. Some time later I returned with 1 Miltonia orchid, Agapanthus
'Blue Storm' and a tub of fat balls ..!

I returned to the garden about 4ish o/c and shored up some earth in front of
my current project, then did some weeding. I would have done a lot more
weeding, but my dear Cheetah came to tell me (silently, by looming thinly)
that she was hungry. By the time moggy munch was served, it was raining and
the Husband Thingy was hungry. I would have gone out after dinner, but I
can't weed in a straight line after half a bottle of white wine :~)

Spider