Tea? (Part 2)

[welsh dragon]

Are those fruit trees in the foreground?

Yes. That is at the side of my house. We made a fruit orchard abiut 5 years ago. There are bramley apples, braeburns, pears, cherrie trees. However the birds eat most of the cherries

 

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Luckily, this is my neighbourhood and even the tourists can't find me . At the top of the picture is an owl box, on the tree, put there by the local owl society. Its for barn owls. As yet though no owls have nested there.

Probably too much rain there for the owls

 

[classic33]

Off to watch an episode of Last of the Summer Wine and then to bed in preparation for tomorrow.
Goodnight.

Sithi

 

[rbreid]

Yes. That is at the side of my house. We made a fruit orchard abiut 5 years ago. There are bramley apples, braeburns, pears, cherrie trees. However the birds eat most of the cherries

Likewise here, 5 cherry trees....and I buy cherries for myself

 

[classic33]

Here in Insch we don't watch 'Last of the Summer Wine'.....we live it

Last Of The Summer Wine is Yorkshire lad, not Scotland! Thats nearly as bad as Lancashire trying to claim it.

 

[welsh dragon]

Probably too much rain there for the owls

We do have barn owls. I have seen them at dusk going up and down the field In that picture, but they havnt nested yet. Maybe it is too bloody wet.

 

[classic33]

Mail order and ebay.

Easily excitable, some of these colonial types.

 

[welsh dragon]

Likewise here, 5 cherry trees....and I buy cherries for myself

We have not been able to get one cherry off of them. Dam birds.

 

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We do have barn owls. I have seen them at dusk going up and down the field In that picture, but they havnt nested yet. Maybe it is too bloody wet.

Oh - that's just fantastic. Barn Owls are magic creatures. I do so hope they nest in your box. Maybe they nest nearby anyway?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

We have not been able to get one cherry off of them. Dam birds.

What birds take the cherries?

 

[welsh dragon]

Oh - that's just fantastic. Barn Owls are magic creatures. I do so hope they nest in your box. Maybe they nest nearby anyway?

I like to think so. They are beautiful birds and I love to see them going up and down the field. We have sparrow hawks as well and red kites.

 

[welsh dragon]

What birds take the cherries?

All of them. Tits, blackbirds most birds take them

 

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All of them. Tits, blackbirds most birds take them

Just enjoy the range of species and forget the harvest

 

[welsh dragon]

All of them. Tits, blackbirds most birds take them

We have otters as well. I have seen an otter on 2 ocassions stealing fish from my pond.

 

[welsh dragon]

Just enjoy the range of species and forget the harvest

We do. We don't tend to bother with the fruit