Congratulations to my dear Mum and Dad on their 66th wedding anniversary today!!
And 66 has a special significance in my family, as heard at 0:58 in this video, which is even older… https://www.youtube.com/
Overflying Herons
Nutcracker and greenfinch
Breakfast in the garden, and a Siberian Nutcracker landed in the tall spruce tree, followed by a greenfinch…
Today is forecast to be the year’s warmest, 27C, already close to 20C at 7am!
Scorzonera in full flower
Ligularia japonica and the Admiral
Breeding swifts?
Working in the garden today and I was surprised by two swifts flying low behind the house and one entered an old starling box on the outhouse….
I’ve been trying to attract swifts (tårnseiler) for years to the house and have one swift box higher on the main house, but they chose this instead!
In the video you can hear the bird “screaming” quietly and another sound….could this be chicks?..strange I haven’t noticed this before, but I’ve been away a lot and I have seen two birds flying low in the same area a couple of times this summer (latest last weekend) and also last summer on several occasions (presumably prospecting). After the one bird left I could hear noises in the nest (I didn’t see both birds enter the box)
Permakultur Grunnkurs /PDC Malvik
Permakultur Grunnkurs (PDC) Trondheim/Malvik , 3 helger sommer/høst 2017
Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) in Trondheim/Malvik over 3 weekends this summer/autumn
See also https://www.facebook.com/events/808432835979618/
On the rocks
Some pictures taken on the beach and rocks below the house while being filmed yesterday harvesting seaweed!
Low rainbow
Siskins and birch
Birch seed scales are currently falling in the garden thanks to the feeding of siskins (grønnsisik)….
Added videos of a siskin feeding on fallen birch seed next to the entrance to the garden…this one allowed me to stand only 2m away and film:
…and above the siskins were feeding in the birch trees
…joined briefly by a Robin
…and showing the proximity to the road