Figs, Miss Muffet and blue tits

The fig tree in the summer  house is completely leaf bare but has about50 figs  half of which will survive the winter and will get ripe in May/June,

While in the summer house that I have made into a hide to watch the birds in the back garden  this blue tit came in through the open glass door

It did not panic as one may think a trapped bird would do on seeing A human in such close proximity.  so I took a couple of shots   then I sat down and waited for it to finish cleaning what grubs it found on the fig tree,it was  on the tree for about 5 minutes before it flew out  on the feeder.

Chaffinch and Dunnock in the front garden, there was three male chaffinch in back the garden ,

 

Female blackbird  feeding on the apples

Then this little fellow  decided to do a miss muffet
 and sat on the pillow beside me while taking snaps of the birds.


Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Robin , Mute Swan, Alarch Mud, Robin goch

Todays mushrooms are on Here
http://wildaboutwales.blogspot.com/2011/11/mushrooms-toadstoolsfungus.html

This female mute swan is always on her own and always comes to the calm waters of the Severn that runs along Dolerw park.,Mae hyn yn alarch mud benywaidd yw bob amser ar ei phen ei hun a bob amser yn dod at y dyfroedd tawel yr afon Hafren sy'n rhedeg ar hyd Dolerw parc.,

here she is on take off for a two hundred yard dash up stream where she has a quiet spot for preening herself, 

.dyma hi ar cymryd i ffwrdd am 200 llinell doriad iard i fyny afon lle mae hi wedi llecyn tawel ar gyfer preening ei hun,

preening time usually at eleven, but if the river is fast flowing she goes on the bank.

glanhau y plu, amser fel arfer yn un ar ddeg, ond os yw'r afon yn llifo'n gyflym mae hi'n mynd ar y lan.,

The robin can not wait to get at the worms in the compost,    

Ni all y robin aros i gael yn y mwydod yn y compost,

 I opened the compost this morning to put some amonia to help the rotting process. and who jumped in the bid but the robin. I only had my pocket camera on me at the time. so i dived in for the canon . and the results are on.
wildaboutwales.blogspot.com/2011/11/robin-mute-swan.html
Agorais y compost yn y bore yma i roi rhywfaint o amonia i helpu'r broses pydru. ac sy'n neidio yn y cais ond y robin goch. Dim ond roedd fy mhoced gamera ar mi ar y pryd. felly fi neidio i mewn ar gyfer y canon. ac mae'r canlyniadau ar

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The Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)

moorhen on a capstan, the welshpool wharf

Dusky Moorhen, Gallinula tenebrosa
juvenile moorhen

female moorhen she had nowhere to hide so she dived underwater did not see where she came up.

Tufted drake not sure what breed but has the colours of Mallard most ducks come from the mallard strain,but this one is almost twice the size of a normal mallard

female mute swan

0ne of the pair of young sygnets