GOOD FENCES - Bird Group Outing and Walled Garden

Last Monday my Bird Group went birding finishing off having lunch at a restaurant called Daft Eddy’s near my old caravan.  The weather was very kind to us as were the tides enabling us to see many thousands of birds. More about that in tomorrow’s post.   For now, look at all the photos I have to show you.

We stopped on this narrow road when we saw Whooper Swans flying over.   These were the first I had seen this year.  then we noticed these 2 horses and Isa had some peppermint which they loved. 

There were 11 in our group that day and we had invited Mary, who is our U3A Chair Person and Jeff her husband to join us for this special day.  In fact it was Mary who spotted the Swans!

Please can I have one too!!

Although we only saw 6 Whooper fly over and at a distance, later on we saw 40 more flying over and then landing on Strangford Lough.

These next shots were taken the next day after I played badminton and then went into the Walled Garden.  I will be showing you more flowers from the garden next Monday however most of these shots have some kind of ‘fence’ in them.

Already they have planted up onion and garlic and 

due to the mild weather are doing very well.

These are broad beans and are already 7” high.  There were also peas however they didn’t look as far on because the Wood Pigeon love them.

The Hydrangea are still blooming.

 This beautiful gate leads from one Walled Garden to the another one.

Apart from quite a number Robin in the garden, there were some Tit, Wren, Blackbird, Rook and Wood Pigeon.  They have some bird feeders up for the birds in  the wintertime.

There was still some colour and below are Wallflowers which have still have to be planted out and really should not be blooming until the spring!

I think these are Lily bulbs having been lifted and 

are drying out in the greenhouse.

On my way home, I drove round by the coast road and saw these birds on the grass.  Someone had thrown down seed for them.  There were Rook, Herring Gull and Hooded Crow.

This is a 1st year winter Herring Gull.

This is a Black headed Gull on the grass and a Rook flying down.

There was a small party of Linnets that were always quite a distance from me, even though I was photographing all these birds from the car so I have cropped some shots so you could see them a bit better although the quality is not great then.

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