{"id":5367,"date":"2020-05-06T08:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T08:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2023-02-24T00:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T00:31:02","slug":"day-43-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/day-43-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 43 in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day 43 in this series, where I have tried to show something new each day, is still going. Day 32 was a re-cap of birds and Day 42 was not a re-cap and did not have anything new just 2 photos of a Greenfinch. Apart from those two I have brought something new each day and every photo, apart from the re-cap, was taken on that day. It is getting more and more difficult to get photos of new subjects so I am wondering how to finish – we’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hebe pinguifolia Pagei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The new one for Day 43 is this Hebe pinguifolia Pagei. It is a bit of a straggler and needs me to tidy up the bed that it is in to give it a better chance. It seems to have been pushed out a bit and some of it trails really low over the edge of the path and it has taken me a while to notice that it is worth a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aphid in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the same front bed under the window we have a climbing rose that is now starting to get Aphids on its younger shoots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dunnock singing in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Still in the front garden the tree at the corner is a popular perch for birds to sing from. It has had Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove and Blackbird singing from it and I have posted a couple of photos in this series. This one shows a Dunnock singing away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tree sillhouettes slowly filling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A more distant view from the front garden shows that some trees have yet to fill with leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Tit singing in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also have birds singing in the back garden, like this Great Tit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greenfinch getting feathers in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For a few years now I have hung from a tree a short plank of wood that has a fat-block feeder fastened to each side. One side is filled with Moss raked from the “grass” and the other side is filled with feathers from an old pillow. I have watched several birds pulling stuff out or picking dropped bits up from the ground. This one, and the header image, is a Greenfinch getting some of the feathers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greenfinch in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think the one getting the feathers is female but this one on the ground is male. Perhaps this is similar behaviour to that seen in the Goldfinch – I posted photos of a Goldfinch collecting grass stalks a few days ago. One of the pair collects material while the other watches nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Female Blackbird with nesting material in our garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just the other side of our back Hawthorn hedge I had spotted Blackbirds settling into some Ivy. I had also seen them busy with nesting material. It looked very much like they had a nest. More recently there was a big commotion with Blackbirds and Magpie in that area and now we have Blackbird nest building again. I wonder if it is all connected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the index to the\u00a0Days in our garden series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 43 in this series, where I have tried to show something new each day, is still going. Day 32 was a re-cap of birds and Day 42 was not a re-cap and did not have anything new just 2 photos of a Greenfinch. Apart from those two I have brought something new each day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Day 43 in our garden. Hebe pinguifolia Pagei and feathers.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7D2_3605.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-1oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}