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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.5

I was so tired when I got home yesterday.
Midnight had missed me.
I am rarely out all day. And when I went out to see him on the swing he had his back turned to me. By the way, there is nothing to stop him coming indoors through the cat flap for the day if I am out.
All 8 fatball feeders had been emptied during the day. But I was too tired, so I only refilled 2 of them (those right by the swing), and then sat on the swing with Midnight.
As soon as I sat down, as if in a cloud a whole flock of pied wagtails came out of the trees and bushes in my garden. Diving and swooping and feeding off the fatball feeders in front of me. So close. They were beautiful to watch.
I sat there quietly for an hour observing them, all the while scritching Midnight on the head and chin until he came around!
Normally a flock of different birds only stay in the garden 5 minutes or so before they fly off.
Just like I can tell differences of shape and character in sparrows now (with watching them so much), I was realising the differences in these pied wagtails, in the design of their colours and arrangement of feathers, and they way they flicked their tail feathers in a different distinct manner.
These wagtails stayed an hour,
An hour of relaxations and chilling out for me...

Creative this morning, a kaleidoscope in Laboscope, of parts of my vegetable garden and the white is the garage door again!

Taking it easy today. I need the peace. And quiet, and no people. Definitely no people.
But I do need to go out to pop my prescription in to the shoe box technology. Online ordering is still not working.

Another cuppa?

Have your best day.

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Good morning everyone from another day of mystery and wonder in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble will be with us this morning and then in the afternoon we are joining the ninky nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse for a spot of camping - Staffordshire apparently. I say camping - They have quite a posh trailer tent with pop up wardrobes and a nice bathroom. Their dad drags it along behind his car and he and mum put it up while the children play with their crazy dog (a husky/German shepherd mix). I say camping - there is a Premier Inn less than a mile from the camping ground - that’s camping enough and the walk will do us good. Dare I take my walking boots? Art bit - adding some colour. Have the best Friday that you can. We of course are tucking it onto the short weekend and adding Monday to the mix. Bon Weekend as they say in France. Time for some koffy.


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Welcome to Friday one and all. Someone threw a switch and suddenly it is autumn here, bah humbug. Still, today is super salmon salad day so best enjoy it while it is possible to afford the bill for cooking salmon. That latest piece of art is simply amazing @dunelm. Do enjoy the weekend. Will Sir Lenny himself attend to your every need? After a good sleep and re-hydration all seems to be as well with me as it is reasonable to expect. Our youngest grandson is here today exploring the world with all the joy and wonder only a one year old can muster. His sister and all her cousins must layer up. Stay safe, turn off all appliances and pray you make it to next summer.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from another day of mystery and wonder in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble will be with us this morning and then in the afternoon we are joining the ninky nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse for a spot of camping - Staffordshire apparently. I say camping - They have quite a posh trailer tent with pop up wardrobes and a nice bathroom. Their dad drags it along behind his car and he and mum put it up while the children play with their crazy dog (a husky/German shepherd mix). I say camping - there is a Premier Inn less than a mile from the camping ground - that’s camping enough and the walk will do us good. Dare I take my walking boots? Art bit - adding some colour. Have the best Friday that you can. We of course are tucking it onto the short weekend and adding Monday to the mix. Bon Weekend as they say in France. Time for some koffy.


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Even more mysterious art bit...

Enjoy your weekend @dunelm
 
Sorry, overslept and now no time.
Blood sugars a 7.9 this morning.
Must depart and do stuff.
 
Fbg 6.4

What have I to report this morning?
Well, yesterday i was trying to set up the two trail cameras to record whatever mysterious stuff was in the back garden.
A couple of hours of reading instructions which were non existent, and ending up on You Tube with people who were trying to impart their information on my trail cameras, and they were even more clueless than I was.
I got two different ones, both were supposed to have 2.4 inch screens for viewing. I don't have a laptop or anything to put an SD card in for better viewing. Unfortunately one of the trail cameras only had a minute screen. But I thought I would try it.
Finally set them both up last night.
One on the swing.
One on the end of the garden.
I put the small one by the swing thinking there wouldn't be much activity on there, just Midnight sleeping. The bigger screen one I put at the end of the garden.
Midnight was in a very good mood this morning. He was very affectionate and loving.
I get back in bed with a cuppa, and the trail cameras. I open the big one first. So disappointed. Nothing recorded for nighttime, just me setting up the trail cameras and going back and forth, before darkness fell.
Abject failure.
I open the second one with the minute viewing screen.
WHAT!!!!!
178 photos.
The first 20 were of me putting it up.
The other 158 were of nighttime activity.
And that started at 20:29 (I had gone to bed early so they were set up early).
They began with Midnight getting on and off the swing.
Not sure but I think he was hunting mice.
Then at 23.49 something very low to the ground came through it wasn't a ginger cat, legs were too short. Maybe it was a polecat. But it was such a tiny screen.
Then at 00:04 a fox comes through. Why do they look at the trail camera? They seem to know it is there!
Then a badger comes in, and leaves.
Then a fox again.
Then a badger again, same or different one I don't know.
Then a fox.
Then the badger comes in and the trail camera captures him/her for the next hour on and off.
And so this all goes on alternately (with the addition of a smaller low to the ground animal) until 04;10 am.

Guess where Midnight is? He is sitting on the swing watching them. He is watching the fox and badger walking in front of him, just literally a few inches away. There is no food left out. I do not leave food out overnight.

They are all coming in from the front garden, up the side of my bungalow, must have eaten a way through that wooden gate which is there which is covered in bushes and trees and brambles (a human would not be able to get through). And they are going back out the same way.

Are they paying homage to Midnight?

I awoke at 03:10 this morning to see Jade on my garage roof, her eyes boring into mine. I said no food yet, you will have to wait. Little did I know the trail camera recorded the badger walking past Midnight just at that time. So, Jade was avoiding the badger...

Both trail cameras will be on my swing supports tonight.

Nothing seemed to be going up the garden, which is why the bigger screen trail camera didn't get triggered off.

So, today I will be checking the settings on both, making sure the bigger screen one has the same settings.

Creative is a photo this morning of one of my frogs. He needs his little pond filling with water...
As far as I could tell the badger/s were not after the frogs last night, but further investigation may show....

Time for a cuppa...

I might put the cameras on those sparrows on the feeders this morning.....

Have your best day.

I need to figure out how to use my dehydrator today...those apples need picking off the apple tree before they fall in the frog pond....



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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone from another day of mystery and wonder in the dark and dangerous north. Girl in the bubble will be with us this morning and then in the afternoon we are joining the ninky nonks and Little Miss Pamplemouse for a spot of camping - Staffordshire apparently. I say camping - They have quite a posh trailer tent with pop up wardrobes and a nice bathroom. Their dad drags it along behind his car and he and mum put it up while the children play with their crazy dog (a husky/German shepherd mix). I say camping - there is a Premier Inn less than a mile from the camping ground - that’s camping enough and the walk will do us good. Dare I take my walking boots? Art bit - adding some colour. Have the best Friday that you can. We of course are tucking it onto the short weekend and adding Monday to the mix. Bon Weekend as they say in France. Time for some koffy.


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I love seeing your paintings progress 'step by step'.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.4

What have I to report this morning?
Well, yesterday i was trying to set up the two trail cameras to record whatever mysterious stuff was in the back garden.
A couple of hours of reading instructions which were non existent, and ending up on You Tube with people who were trying to impart their information on my trail cameras, and they were even more clueless than I was.
I got two different ones, both were supposed to have 2.4 inch screens for viewing. I don't have a laptop or anything to put an SD card in for better viewing. Unfortunately one of the trail cameras only had a minute screen. But I thought I would try it.
Finally set them both up last night.
One on the swing.
One on the end of the garden.
I put the small one by the swing thinking there wouldn't be much activity on there, just Midnight sleeping. The bigger screen one I put at the end of the garden.
Midnight was in a very good mood this morning. He was very affectionate and loving.
I get back in bed with a cuppa, and the trail cameras. I open the big one first. So disappointed. Nothing recorded for nighttime, just me setting up the trail cameras and going back and forth, before darkness fell.
Abject failure.
I open the second one with the minute viewing screen.
WHAT!!!!!
178 photos.
The first 20 were of me putting it up.
The other 158 were of nighttime activity.
And that started at 20:29 (I had gone to bed early so they were set up early).
They began with Midnight getting on and off the swing.
Not sure but I think he was hunting mice.
Then at 23.49 something very low to the ground came through it wasn't a ginger cat, legs were too short. Maybe it was a polecat. But it was such a tiny screen.
Then at 00:04 a fox comes through. Why do they look at the trail camera? They seem to know it is there!
Then a badger comes in, and leaves.
Then a fox again.
Then a badger again, same or different one I don't know.
Then a fox.
Then the badger comes in and the trail camera captures him/her for the next hour on and off.
And so this all goes on alternately (with the addition of a smaller low to the ground animal) until 04;10 am.

Guess where Midnight is? He is sitting on the swing watching them. He is watching the fox and badger walking in front of him, just literally a few inches away. There is no food left out. I do not leave food out overnight.

They are all coming in from the front garden, up the side of my bungalow, must have eaten a way through that wooden gate which is there which is covered in bushes and trees and brambles (a human would not be able to get through). And they are going back out the same way.

Are they paying homage to Midnight?

I awoke at 03:10 this morning to see Jade on my garage roof, her eyes boring into mine. I said no food yet, you will have to wait. Little did I know the trail camera recorded the badger walking past Midnight just at that time. So, Jade was avoiding the badger...

Both trail cameras will be on my swing supports tonight.

Nothing seemed to be going up the garden, which is why the bigger screen trail camera didn't get triggered off.

So, today I will be checking the settings on both, making sure the bigger screen one has the same settings.

Creative is a photo this morning of one of my frogs. He needs his little pond filling with water...
As far as I could tell the badger/s were not after the frogs last night, but further investigation may show....

Time for a cuppa...

I might put the cameras on those sparrows on the feeders this morning.....

Have your best day.

I need to figure out how to use my dehydrator today...those apples need picking off the apple tree before they fall in the frog pond....



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What a good idea to get the cameras @gennepher. Your garden is a haven for wildlife.
 
Almost forgot to post fbs 4.9 this morning. Yesterday took our end of year accounts to the account yesterday. It is so lovely to have them finished so early. End of year was 31st July
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.4

What have I to report this morning?
Well, yesterday i was trying to set up the two trail cameras to record whatever mysterious stuff was in the back garden.
A couple of hours of reading instructions which were non existent, and ending up on You Tube with people who were trying to impart their information on my trail cameras, and they were even more clueless than I was.
I got two different ones, both were supposed to have 2.4 inch screens for viewing. I don't have a laptop or anything to put an SD card in for better viewing. Unfortunately one of the trail cameras only had a minute screen. But I thought I would try it.
Finally set them both up last night.
One on the swing.
One on the end of the garden.
I put the small one by the swing thinking there wouldn't be much activity on there, just Midnight sleeping. The bigger screen one I put at the end of the garden.
Midnight was in a very good mood this morning. He was very affectionate and loving.
I get back in bed with a cuppa, and the trail cameras. I open the big one first. So disappointed. Nothing recorded for nighttime, just me setting up the trail cameras and going back and forth, before darkness fell.
Abject failure.
I open the second one with the minute viewing screen.
WHAT!!!!!
178 photos.
The first 20 were of me putting it up.
The other 158 were of nighttime activity.
And that started at 20:29 (I had gone to bed early so they were set up early).
They began with Midnight getting on and off the swing.
Not sure but I think he was hunting mice.
Then at 23.49 something very low to the ground came through it wasn't a ginger cat, legs were too short. Maybe it was a polecat. But it was such a tiny screen.
Then at 00:04 a fox comes through. Why do they look at the trail camera? They seem to know it is there!
Then a badger comes in, and leaves.
Then a fox again.
Then a badger again, same or different one I don't know.
Then a fox.
Then the badger comes in and the trail camera captures him/her for the next hour on and off.
And so this all goes on alternately (with the addition of a smaller low to the ground animal) until 04;10 am.

Guess where Midnight is? He is sitting on the swing watching them. He is watching the fox and badger walking in front of him, just literally a few inches away. There is no food left out. I do not leave food out overnight.

They are all coming in from the front garden, up the side of my bungalow, must have eaten a way through that wooden gate which is there which is covered in bushes and trees and brambles (a human would not be able to get through). And they are going back out the same way.

Are they paying homage to Midnight?

I awoke at 03:10 this morning to see Jade on my garage roof, her eyes boring into mine. I said no food yet, you will have to wait. Little did I know the trail camera recorded the badger walking past Midnight just at that time. So, Jade was avoiding the badger...

Both trail cameras will be on my swing supports tonight.

Nothing seemed to be going up the garden, which is why the bigger screen trail camera didn't get triggered off.

So, today I will be checking the settings on both, making sure the bigger screen one has the same settings.

Creative is a photo this morning of one of my frogs. He needs his little pond filling with water...
As far as I could tell the badger/s were not after the frogs last night, but further investigation may show....

Time for a cuppa...

I might put the cameras on those sparrows on the feeders this morning.....

Have your best day.

I need to figure out how to use my dehydrator today...those apples need picking off the apple tree before they fall in the frog pond....



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Fascinating, if incomplete, insight into the the nightlife in your garden. I hope the re-positioned cameras reveal more. Thanks for the frog and a good job the visitors have, so far, left them alone.
Edited: Definitely not revel more:arghh:
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
Your post yesterday triggered an 'ear worm'. The music did go very well with the thunderstorm.

Good that the side effects of your treatment were not too horrid.
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Thank you. I suspect the side effects may be cumulative. Good news on the EOY accounts being in promptly and spiffing fbg.
 
ianpspurs said:
Welcome to Friday one and all. Someone threw a switch and suddenly it is autumn here, bah humbug. Still, today is super salmon salad day so best enjoy it while it is possible to afford the bill for cooking salmon. That latest piece of art is simply amazing @dunelm. Do enjoy the weekend. Will Sir Lenny himself attend to your every need? After a good sleep and re-hydration all seems to be as well with me as it is reasonable to expect. Our youngest grandson is here today exploring the world with all the joy and wonder only a one year old can muster. His sister and all her cousins must layer up. Stay safe, turn off all appliances and pray you make it to next summer.
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Thank you kind sir. One year olds - fabulous. Sir Lenny said something but as to what - who knows - wonder if it was a Shakespeare quote.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.4

What have I to report this morning?
Well, yesterday i was trying to set up the two trail cameras to record whatever mysterious stuff was in the back garden.
A couple of hours of reading instructions which were non existent, and ending up on You Tube with people who were trying to impart their information on my trail cameras, and they were even more clueless than I was.
I got two different ones, both were supposed to have 2.4 inch screens for viewing. I don't have a laptop or anything to put an SD card in for better viewing. Unfortunately one of the trail cameras only had a minute screen. But I thought I would try it.
Finally set them both up last night.
One on the swing.
One on the end of the garden.
I put the small one by the swing thinking there wouldn't be much activity on there, just Midnight sleeping. The bigger screen one I put at the end of the garden.
Midnight was in a very good mood this morning. He was very affectionate and loving.
I get back in bed with a cuppa, and the trail cameras. I open the big one first. So disappointed. Nothing recorded for nighttime, just me setting up the trail cameras and going back and forth, before darkness fell.
Abject failure.
I open the second one with the minute viewing screen.
WHAT!!!!!
178 photos.
The first 20 were of me putting it up.
The other 158 were of nighttime activity.
And that started at 20:29 (I had gone to bed early so they were set up early).
They began with Midnight getting on and off the swing.
Not sure but I think he was hunting mice.
Then at 23.49 something very low to the ground came through it wasn't a ginger cat, legs were too short. Maybe it was a polecat. But it was such a tiny screen.
Then at 00:04 a fox comes through. Why do they look at the trail camera? They seem to know it is there!
Then a badger comes in, and leaves.
Then a fox again.
Then a badger again, same or different one I don't know.
Then a fox.
Then the badger comes in and the trail camera captures him/her for the next hour on and off.
And so this all goes on alternately (with the addition of a smaller low to the ground animal) until 04;10 am.

Guess where Midnight is? He is sitting on the swing watching them. He is watching the fox and badger walking in front of him, just literally a few inches away. There is no food left out. I do not leave food out overnight.

They are all coming in from the front garden, up the side of my bungalow, must have eaten a way through that wooden gate which is there which is covered in bushes and trees and brambles (a human would not be able to get through). And they are going back out the same way.

Are they paying homage to Midnight?

I awoke at 03:10 this morning to see Jade on my garage roof, her eyes boring into mine. I said no food yet, you will have to wait. Little did I know the trail camera recorded the badger walking past Midnight just at that time. So, Jade was avoiding the badger...

Both trail cameras will be on my swing supports tonight.

Nothing seemed to be going up the garden, which is why the bigger screen trail camera didn't get triggered off.

So, today I will be checking the settings on both, making sure the bigger screen one has the same settings.

Creative is a photo this morning of one of my frogs. He needs his little pond filling with water...
As far as I could tell the badger/s were not after the frogs last night, but further investigation may show....

Time for a cuppa...

I might put the cameras on those sparrows on the feeders this morning.....

Have your best day.

I need to figure out how to use my dehydrator today...those apples need picking off the apple tree before they fall in the frog pond....



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Fascinating stuff. Nighttime can be so busy in our gardens and we just sleep though it all. Will be interesting to see what both cameras capture. Excellent frog capture.
 
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