Tommyshortlegs Updates Jan-Feb 2012

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Been out of hospital for over a week now and feeling a lot better. Thank you all for your well wishes. Since being out I have taken more pictures of my garden visitors.
The snow cover has been very stubborn in leaving but today Monday 13 Feb I woke to find that no ice had formed on the birds drinking water. I hope that you enjoy my pictures.

Blooming ’eck, Yap! yap! yap! perpetual earache

Time I got out of here and had a quickie down the pub

Just a short flight away.

And I’m soon on the glide path for the pub.

A Coal tit eating munchies in the beer garden

As is a Blue tit enjoying some crispy coated fried mealworms Yummy.

Nice looking Ms Blackbird

Must be her dapper mate in the whistle and flute

Must be all this yellow snow, are they playing chameleon tongues or something

Watch out dove a flying wag

The male Black bird shouts a warning for the water drinkers

Wow! nearly a soaking

The wags must have overdone the hooch.

Blimey! Wags after the Blue tits now.

Even the Dunnock is having a chatter

_ A Longtailed tit on a feeder. You can see where they got their name from._

A Longtailed Tit lands on the path. They always remind me of a little mouse.

Back view of a Great Tit on the feeder

Great Tit having a good stretch.

A female Chaffinch wants to see what’s going on.

Four and twenty baked in a pie.

A lone gull touches down on my neighbour’s roof.

The gull did hover over my mini snowfield and managed to grab a beakfull of crumbled suet and oat ball-unfortunately I missed the shot with my camera, the picture shows the gull circling for another go but like future models it got camera shy.

Caught a snap of a Blue Tit springing from branch to branch

Looks like this squirrel’s tail and next oor’s cat have had an argument

A Kangaroo Chaffinch.

A Blue Tit examines the Nyjer

Quick March

The poor female( I think) in front looks so skinny as she never gets a chance to eat. The minute she lands she’s for ever the attention on the latter.

I asked my son if he could pop to the nearby woods and take a photo for me.

There was not a bird to be seen in the woods but then I looked up and saw a man made one. I wonder where they are off to. Warmer climes I bet. To high to have taken of from the London airports and was flying North so I guess it had departed from the Continent.

Training for the 2012 London Olympics.

As the snow slowly melts from my little outside pots I can actually see some shoots showing through. Is this spring just around the corner. Let’s hope so.

_I always look forward to warmer times and hearing the blackbird joining in with the dawn chorus. It’s always in competition with a song thrush that I have yet to catch on camera and the robin. I maybe wrong in the bird’s names but I’m sure my Ispyabird friends will soon put me right. Bye for now…………..Tom_

• 14 Feb, 2012
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