By all accounts we did pretty well on Thursday to avoid the many showers that were around locally. It remained dry and mostly sunny and it was late afternoon before we had our first downpour of the day. Mind you having seen Stacy's dry soil at Allotment Adventures of Plot 58 then I shouldn't complain at all about a drop of rain for the plot.
Mr and Mrs Bullfinch have become regular visitors to our bird table. It’s situated in amongst the crab apple tree and as bullfinches have a notorious reputation for destroying fruit buds I'm just a little concerned for our John Downie crab apples.
They both seem to enjoy the bird seed mixture put out on the bird table each day. It's easy to see where the bull part of the name comes from as the male doesn't like to dine with anyone else at the table and soon sees off other birds arriving although he does allow his mate to dine with him. We're hoping that they just leave all our fruit buds alone and stick to their daily supply of seed.
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They're lovely birds though. My parents used to get them visiting their garden before they moved house.
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