Sorry my bird list is a day late, been very hectic with my parents over from Australia, theyāve been wanting to see a fair few things, and Ā get a lot done around the house, also with UK ISA season happening at the moment Iāve been answering a lot of emails trying to help people save and make the most they can out of ISAs (itās not great out there at the moment!), as well as keeping up to date with the Australian finance pages:Ā Saver Scene Australia: FinanceĀ (now closed as I move into gardening as a profession) so far just got the savings done for this week, but about to start on credit cards and best bank accounts. Ā These websites will hopefully only be something I run while Iām injured, as I really want Ā to Ā get back to photography, but had to do something to earn money as I couldnāt get into any jobs with my ankle tendons and the carpal tunnel strikes bad at times, I wouldnāt feel right asking an employer to pay me when I knew I couldnāt do the work at 100%!
My parents are enjoying the UK, have already ducked off to Paris where they said it was freezing cold, worse than Edinburgh! Theyāre looking forward to more travel and Iāve been trying to teach them the UK birds that visit my garden, thankfully a few of them have been very obliging and 2 long-tailed tits landed less than a foot away from my dadās face while he was in the garden yesterday, they sang for a bit and then moved on quickly, as LTTs always do!
Garden Bird list for April 3rd:
- Blackbird x 1
- Blue Tit x 1
- Bullfinch x 1, 1xF
- Carrion crow x 2
- Coal Tit x 1
- Common Buzzard x 1 ā very high overhead, once again gulls mobbing it
- Dunnock x 1
- Long-tailed tit x 2
- Magpie x 2, looks to be the same pair collecting twigs off the front trees for their nest, theyāve pretty much stripped the top of one tree of itās leaves.
- Robin x 1 ā great to see the robin back!
- Woodpigeon x 1
This was posting on the Lothian Birds News yahoo group:
British Bees need help:
āThereās mounting evidence that some pesticides are killing bees. But the UK Environment Minister recently refused to support a European vote to stop the pesticides being usedā There is just a few weeks to change the Ministers mind before he votes again
85,000 people have already signed a petition to demand that he protects our bees. The target is to reach 100,000 signatories. You can get involved @ https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-bees.
Bees and other insects pollinate about three quarters of our food so are incredibly important. Bees are dying in great numbers.
