Happy thread

[Steamie+]

Really happy for you Jon at least you are getting some comfort now.   

[daffy]

Some may remember my posts here last year about Mrs Bird, the friendly blackbird who comes daily to my door to be fed. Many days she actually 'knocks' on the kitchen window to announce her arrival.

Happy to report she is still going strong, having survived the winter and the darned prowling cats. This is her third year and she has a new mate I have christened Goldeneye. He's not so brave, hiding in the bushes when I bring the food out, and she makes it quite clear to him that there is a pecking order - he gets the scraps.

She has been less brave herself over the winter, but now clearly with a nesting brood somewhere outside the garden she is getting more daring and may soon be occasionally eating out of my hand.

I also put out water and she she sometimes uses the saucer as a bath, or stands beside it, wings and tail slightly spread, catching some rays, as she was a few moments ago.

Ain't life grand.

[Steamie+]

Some may remember my posts here last year about Mrs Bird, the friendly blackbird who comes daily to my door to be fed. Many days she actually 'knocks' on the kitchen window to announce her arrival.

Happy to report she is still going strong, having survived the winter and the darned prowling cats. This is her third year and she has a new mate I have christened Goldeneye. He's not so brave, hiding in the bushes when I bring the food out, and she makes it quite clear to him that there is a pecking order - he gets the scraps.

She has been less brave herself over the winter, but now clearly with a nesting brood somewhere outside the garden she is getting more daring and may soon be occasionally eating out of my hand.

I also put out water and she she sometimes uses the saucer as a bath, or stands beside it, wings and tail slightly spread, catching some rays, as she was a few moments ago.

Ain't life grand.

It sure is, hope she does start eating from your hand mate and you can get a photo of her doing too.   

[Newportnobby]

Happy to report she is still going strong, having survived the winter and the darned prowling cats.

That's good to know, Mike.
It's things like that puts a smile on your face

[joe cassidy]

I hope next door's cat is not reading this 

[broadsword]

Interesting reading about the blackbird, in Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorm area
I fed a chaffinch by hand (almost), at a spot where people stop to have their
sandwiches etc . The chaffinch would arrive and chirp, I put some bits of
KitKat on my boot and the chaffinch took them , came back 3 mins later
chirping for more.

[daffy]

I recall the cafe at the remote hamlet of Watendlath in the Lake District, where sat at the outdoor tables all manner of finches, dunnocks and sparrows would regularly perch upon them while we ate our lunch or snack. Most could be fed by hand and some would perch on your hand to do so.

(They were never aggressive, unlike the raucous seagulls at Whitby and other seaside towns where people feeding them chips has made them a real pest.)

Watendlath - a great Norse name for a village, a tranquil spot in the hills around Borrowdale of which some say: "Wat endlath blith thith plaith ith." 

[Newportnobby]

I hope next door's cat is not reading this 

Don't be silly. My zebra says cats can't read

[jonclox]

Well done Hermes for delivering my pre owned Minitrix Der Adler set yesterday and my     Grainge and Hodder Ltd control panel/desk/kit today.It was promply hot glue tacked and then PVA wood glued together  and is now just waiting for  the glue to harden.

[Newportnobby]

Usual request, Jon. Any chance of a pic or two please?

[jonclox]

Usual request, Jon. Any chance of a pic or two please?

Still sorting out my new camera gubbins but  maybe next week if your lucky or I might just some pictures already on the net as tasters
......And I still hate taking pictures 

[jonclox]

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Model-Railway-Baseboards-Control-Panel-Controller-Shelf-Laser-Cut-Base-Boards/382003067424?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160608105753%26meid%3Db67b6e82aebe400f9970d57a2f5186fb%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D381399687984][/url]

[jonclox]

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINITRIX-N-GAUGE-LIMITED-EDITION-DER-ADLER-SET-/131051237714
Mine cost far less than this one but is only in a tired cardboard box with no figures  so Im quite happy with what I paid

[Newportnobby]

At least I know what you're referring to now.

[N-Gauge-US]

Those baseboard kits look very nice. I may have to look to see if someone stateside makes a similar series of products.