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Welcomed Visitors in our Garden

Rødstrupe/Red Robin by JR Guillaumin via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs.

Birds are the favoured visitors to our garden and though some are more welcomed than others they alll supply life and liveliness to the surroundings. Not only do they entertain with their song it is also fun to watch them as they gather food and collect bits and pieces to build nests. Here is a […]

Birds in our Garden

Gråspurv/House Sparrow Rubund Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike

(Source: Wikipedia) The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. A small bird, it has a typical length of 16 cm and a mass of 24–39.5 g. Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, and males have brighter black, white, and brown […]

A not so Welcomed Visitor

Deer are beautiful animals and an excotic guest in our garden, but can wreak havoc in flower beds. In the beginning we were amazed at how gratious they were but gradually we have come to see them differently. One morning in early spring we came out to see this:                 […]