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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: zwartbles on December 19, 2018, 04:56:34 pm

Title: Christmas
Post by: zwartbles on December 19, 2018, 04:56:34 pm
Well that's our Christmas baubles gone !
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Buttermilk on December 19, 2018, 05:00:49 pm
The yaffle will have enjoyed them though.
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: zwartbles on December 19, 2018, 06:35:04 pm
That's a word we don't hear very often!
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: doganjo on December 23, 2018, 12:20:21 pm
Picus Viridus  :innocent:
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Fleecewife on December 23, 2018, 04:36:38 pm
Quote from: doganjo on December 23, 2018, 12:20:21 pm
Picus Viridus  :innocent:


It's only when I looked that up that I expanded the pic to find a beautiful green woodpecker munching on the Golden Hornets. We don't have them round here  :(


Excellent photo as always zwartbles  :thumbsup: :xmaswindow:   The best TAS can do for baubles!
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: zwartbles on January 01, 2019, 10:31:21 am
Not a crab apple, Fleecewife. Must be a very old variety. Our house was built in 1650 and I would assume this was grown to be early winter food. Doesn't ripen until late October and a few normally hang around till Christmas. This year, presumably because we have only had one or two frosts, this is what we still have. We leave them for the birds!
Title: Re: Christmas
Post by: Rupert the bear on January 01, 2019, 12:12:38 pm
Quote from: zwartbles on January 01, 2019, 10:31:21 am
Not a crab apple, Fleecewife. Must be a very old variety. Our house was built in 1650 and I would assume this was grown to be early winter food. Doesn't ripen until late October and a few normally hang around till Christmas. This year, presumably because we have only had one or two frosts, this is what we still have. We leave them for the birds!
We have the same here , again a very old tree. wish I knew the variety  , have some in storage taste very nice