[Paul_Sengupta]

All I get in my garden is next door's cat!

[Miscellaneous]

All I get in my garden is next door's cat!

Paul, I think it's a matter of perspective. I can't help but think there are gardens and there are gardens, with very little resemblance to each other

[Flintstone]

.... a breeding pair down on the Newport marshes for a couple of years now.

Tantric sex?

[Paultheparaglider]

That is the difference between a breeding pair and a pair breeding.

Anyway, we saw them again today in a nearby field, so with any luck there will be some babies on the way.

[Paultheparaglider]

All I get in my garden is next door's cat!

Paul, I think it's a matter of perspective. I can't help but think there are gardens and there are gardens, with very little resemblance to each other

On the plus side, it doesn't look like it would take Paul three hours to cut his grass. My next garden will be more like his.

[Miscellaneous]

I thought it only fair to highlight it wasn't exactly comparing apples with apples.

[Paul_Sengupta]

If it hasn't gown too much I can do my grass in the back garden in 10 mins. 20 mins front and back, and that includes my neighbour's lawn as well. That includes getting the mower out and putting it away.

I do have a bush on the fence at the back of the back garden, and I think there actually may be birds nesting in there but I haven't investigated too closely. Generally the only birds I get are blackbirds pecking around on the lawn. I get the odd robin and sometimes a wood pigeon gets lost... There are magpies around but they don't seem to land in the back gardens. Might be something to do with the plethora of cats in the area.

[Flintstone]

Mrs Robin is going to be sitting down for the next two weeks.

[Flintstone]

Today it's a bumblebee nest in a bucket of alpaca wool left out for nesting birds at a friend's house (their birds have the most des resses in the bird world).

[AerBabe]

Current garden is carp for wildlife - too many houses with not enough gardens. I've seen a sparrowhawk in the area though.

Previous garden was full of birds - they came for the food and the nesting material.







(Flinty - do you need a reminder of how to resize images?

[Flintstone]

No, just the time and inclination to do it.

[Mr Bags]

Sadly the magpies seem to have done their damage to a blackbird nest and chicks in the garden. Quite a pitiful sight watching the blackbird mum. But that's nature I suppose.

[Miscellaneous]

Just sat down to dinner and on my second mouthful I thought; 'what's that', on the third I was convinced and jumped up to the window.

Sure enough it was either a very large pod of dolphin, or two pods. Estimated distance is around 2/2.5km when spotted and didn't get much closer than 1.5km (yip 'ther half is still saying how did you see them).

"We" only have a 300mm lens (it ain't mine ), so best I could do:

[Paultheparaglider]

Just sat down to dinner and on my second mouthful I thought; 'what's that', on the third I was convinced and jumped up to the window.

Frankly, I'm disappointed. When I read this bit, I was hoping for photos of Nessie.

[Miscellaneous]

Many apologies Paul, but I'm sure I shared with you that I no longer live next door to Nessie.

I could wax lyrical about my meetings with Nessie, as I often did with the tourists, unfortunately I think you may pick up on the significance of my sightings being as I left the pub.