TUESDAY, 15.2.22.

Over the weekend, notices appeared all over our area of side streets, saying that we were going to have our side streets re-covered and any cars not moved on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday would be towed away.

Can you imagine the trouble trying to find parking places these days!, when a lot of households have more than one car!.

Rained heavily on Monday so no workers turned up, today Tuesday they turned up and one said your cul-de-sac is good and we would only make it worse!, after seeing their efforts on the other roads I quite understood what he meant!.

Anyway by the time we got home from our wandering and dinner at McDonalds, they had finished and all notices taken down, so we are back to normal again.

The other day I put this on my post and my sister in OZ said I saw you on YouTube at the bird table.

Looking at it myself there was I seeming to be taking Monkey nuts off the table and mate Bob said "didn't realise you were that hungry!".

But to explain!, I had put the monkey nuts on the table and then remembered that Vicki had said the little hut on the top of the trellis was a Squirrel feeding station so repositioned the monkey nuts there!.  

The Peregrines at Pear Mill this week seem to be showing interest with each other as do most of the wildlife in the park.

In the Cafe there, Mate Peter was given an unusual teapot, which I think the staff thought was the thing to do has he had just had to have his old dog put to sleep, not sure what he thought of that!.

But the owners did give us all a slice of cake on the house to cheer us up, which I thought was nice of them.

Got a nice milk jug this week as well.

At home the Blackbirds are enjoying the berries on my bushes.

Made a slight modification to the window box feeder (Jaquie bought me for my birthday) put in some perches as the little birds hadn't anything to stand on so it wasn't getting used at all.

Half way though February already hey, at least the days are getting longer, hate the long nights!.

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First few days of February, 4.2.22.

 The first few days of February have been quite wet and cold!.

But Thursday after our trip to Pear Mill Café it was too nice to go home so we went to the Wildlife Nature Centre in Debdale park to find that Chris and Vicki are back after their spell of Covid, they say they are still feeling lethargic during the day but back on duty at the centre.

Whilst there we captured these pictures but only had the pocket camera with us.

There were quite a few of these Long Tailed Tits on the fat ball feeders.

Great Tit on the table.

Nuthatch on the table.

Seemed to be Robins everywhere.

There were also Goldfinches on the feeders.

There is now a camera connected to YouTube centred on the bird table, so you can see what's happening sat by your fire!.

There was a Jay on the table today on-line, so hope to see that for real in the next few days.

I thought this was a bird box, but was told it is a Squirrel feeding station. didn't see any Squirrels on it but plenty of birds when I put some seed on the platform there. 

Down on the Lower Resser we saw this nice heron. 

A Great Crested Grebe.

A  Pigeon Fest!.

There's always one Canada Goose who want's to get in the picture.

Back home, my Goldfinches are doing well, only seem to be three adults here now though, perhaps the youngsters have gone over to Debdale!.

The Dunnocks are still in attendance. 

 It's not been too bad today (Friday) though its been "rain stopped play", the only good thing is "The Chicken Legend" is back on the menu at McDonalds!.

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Why are women called bird's, because they tend to pick up worms

If blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?.

A barking dog never bites, well at least not while its barking!

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Last post of the month, 31.1.2022.

 Last post of the month, my goodness where did January go!, I know it left me a year older!.

Still I suppose there are a lots of people that's died with Covid wished they could say that.

Been to our usual watering hole at Pear Mill Cafe On Saturday and today, wasn't too bad today but Saturday was very busy, guess it was the bad weather that chased people indoors.

This is a fancy cup isn't it, that's the novelty of the Café there, you never know what crockery your going too get.

Today's milk jug was a cow!.

The table decoration today was daffodils.

The Peregrines were in attendance too which is always a bonus for me.

On the way home on Saturday called at Morrisons and saw these frozen dinners so bought a couple at .99p each, polished off those over the weekend and went today for some more, but as usual they were all gone, bet they will up the price next time!!. 

They were very nice though.

Friday we were at the Snipe for bacon butties and called at the Ashton Moss Nature reserve with some seed and fat balls.

Saw these Muscovy Ducks and various other birds. 

 Blue Tit and Sparrow.

House Sparrow. Tree Sparrows have brown heads.

Was lucky to see this Reed Bunting.

Not a good picture, but they don't stay around too long, all black head and plenty of white underneath.

Female Mallard.

Yesterday (Sunday) we had a quick walk on the Ressers at Debdale and met a couple we had spoke to in the past and they had been to a camp site I'd suggested in the Lakes and they had been over the moon with it and had been kayaking on Ullswater!.

The lady mentioned that she once lived near the Mormon temple near Chorley, so was able to tell them that my Son had just recently helped in the replacement of the gold statue on the top of the spire there.

So they now know how big the statue is and how its placed on the top.

That's Son John in the Orange hard hat by the way.

At the Ressers we saw these.

Herons and Cormorants.

Spring is early this year according to Winterwatch though the temperature doesn't seem to be, but two weeks ago, we spotted these Snowdrops in Debdale park, and we have Daffodil's coming up in the garden trough in the front garden. 

Well its into February tomorrow, lets see what that brings hey.

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