around my house.

Without the worms and slugs making compost would be hard  work

party time  for the yobs  on the footpath at the back of the house

sunrays over Mochdre hills

lichen on the crab apple tree

It was a gate now its a style

something to look up to

a lonesome pine

a bare sycamore tree.

Mushrooms in the hedgerow.

the gorse is in full bloom

Yesterdays post is on   http://photowales.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-my-garden-6112012.html

sun u over our house

blue tits on the feeder

chaffinch in the apple tree

two tits arguing over on apple

the squirrel is here again after the sunflower seeds  i put dawn for the finches

maybe them birds will come to have some apple.

the red robin is coming into flower

some bug has borred a hole in this laurel berry

sylvester in the apple tree

Newton from the water reservoir  on the hill at the back back of our house

The hills above Newton looking towards Llanmerewig

Newtown football field  home to the Robins  with St Davids Church  and pryce jones building  in the background
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The Lone oak tree on Llanmerewig hill

Brimmon  hill,,, in the centre of the photo is  where the proposed new by-pass for Newtown will be 

The Gate to nowhere,

Fungi in a dead elderberry tree

Early catkins 

Jelly fungus on a rotting branch

Crab apples 

The yobs pub  pre 1972  before the council made a path between the council estates this area was the orchard for our house

The monkey puzzle tree  next door,

Vesty loves the great outdoors sitting in his favourite place on the apple tree

Long-tailed tit,Aegithalos caudatus,

First time I have seen the long-tailed tits 

Description

The Long-tailed Tit is an adorable, small, fluffy pinkish bird.

The shoulders and underparts are pinkish. The head has a white crown with black marks above the eyes and into the nape. They have red eye rings and a very small black bill. The black and white tail is very long, over half the length of the bird and the longest tail of any British bird in proportion to its body. The legs are black-brown.

Juveniles lack pink and have grey-black cheeks.

Long-tailed tits are not really members of the Tit family but of the Aegithalidae family.

Feeding

They feed mostly on insects and their larvae, and spiders, but also on berries.

Increasingly, Long-tailed Tits are feeding from peanut feeders and suet cake in gardens.

These came in fed for a few minutes and left.

Male Blackbird we have about twelve birds  feeding on the apples and berries in our garden at this time of year,

Usually this grey squirrel is in hibernation at this time of year. but its so mild with only two mornings of frost in the past month. here she has found the corn seeds the tits do not want.

The siamese hates being cold  so cuddles up to the main coon for warmth  and of course has to be groomed first.