Watch the Birdie

Numbers of a threatened species of bird native to some of Bracknell Forest’s nature reserves have dropped following heavy snowfalls in the winter. Conservationists are warning that numbers of Dartford warblers could have fallen by 80 or 90 per cent.
Bracknell Standard

It is worrying that things are being done to protect birds, but that they continue to decline.

The Council has produced Open Space Management Plans in consultation with Natural England. These set out the precise works to areas of open space and the priority order for these enhancements. Four of these plans have now been finalised, Horseshoe Lakes, Englemere Pond, The Cut Countryside Corridor and Longhill Park cluster, and the remaining four will be produced.
Thames Basin.

The birds in our garden, and the woodland behind appear to have done well with breeding this year.
At one stage I could count 7 baby Blue Tits in the bird bath together. The were like a bunch of small boys at the seaside splashing about.

On a more somber note, there is a "smell" in the attic. The Starlings did appear to breed OK, but I suspect that one did not make it. Diane wants me to go up now and sort it out. I wonder if I wait whether "it" will dry out and cease to be a problem.

There used to be a lot of Starlings about when I moved in 12 years ago. There was constant whistling and chatting. I miss all that background noise.

We did the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. As always it was interesting watching all the birds come and go.
I must remember to keep an eye out for a suitable webcam to capture the garden and wildlife.

Not together at all

Well I give up on joining social networks and blogs together.
What with multiple posts, no posts and general lumpiness.
It may be a good thing though. Having spent the afternoon wading though 600 unlooked at emails on my AOL/AIM address, and some hundreds more in other accounts, I think it is best that these things are not coupled together anyway. I still have loads of seminar (have to pay to go) invites on the council email, and load of junk from Microsoft, and Yahoo in those accounts.
At least in the "junk" accounts that I use to sign up for things(they promise NEVER to give your email away) I don't have to look too hard before I hit the delete button.

At least in those "junk" accounts I don't have to eyeball the junk and spam folders. It is so annoying to find a week or a month old message in either the spam or junk boxes, when it is perfectly valid. I suppose I find much the same problem with snail mail. Useful things get hidden under the junk, and find their way to the recycling bin. The trouble is whenever you want to check the real or virtual bin for accidents a garbage collector has always been by the day before.
I did go through a stage of rechecking the bins before putting them out, but Diane thought I was bonkers.

Facebook seems to be the one everyone communicates with, I have not had many people link up to me on myspace, windows live, yahoo, or whatever else I did and can't remember much about now. Playing with these things comes in handy though, just in case a customer needs help with suchlike.