tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792902209446838780.post3078361970277134342..comments2024-03-27T17:54:30.940+00:00Comments on LOSING TIME: NEW YEAR REDS PINKS AND BLUESP R Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09634848272422307580noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792902209446838780.post-2819114145329241272022-01-12T16:29:10.675+00:002022-01-12T16:29:10.675+00:00Thank you very much Shelly! Yes, these Cyclamens a...Thank you very much Shelly! Yes, these Cyclamens are smaller than the houseplant ones, and in the right conditions they come back every year. I hope I've put them in the right place!<br />Bullfinches are rarer than they used to be, so I was delighted to see this one, but I've hardly ever seen him here in 7 years, so I hope he will return. He's also very photogenic 😊P R Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09634848272422307580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792902209446838780.post-52088659005213107532022-01-11T17:58:17.796+00:002022-01-11T17:58:17.796+00:00Lovely images! So cool to have Cyclamens that can...Lovely images! So cool to have Cyclamens that can grow outside. Those are houseplants strictly for us. The Bullfinch is a pretty bird. I have never seen one of these.Shelly Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15474382306447448792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792902209446838780.post-33390881515962944602022-01-10T19:08:34.838+00:002022-01-10T19:08:34.838+00:00Thank you so much, Hugo. Yes, occasionally I stray...Thank you so much, Hugo. Yes, occasionally I stray off the purple path, lol!<br />Your jackdaws will definitely be hunting for food. All kinds of birds do the same with our roof, or the rain dislodges the moss, and it's a chore to keep sweeping it up - which I guess no-one wants to do where you live, because the street cleaning machine should do it - except they seem to have disappeared forever... 😉P R Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09634848272422307580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8792902209446838780.post-48539437242312577432022-01-10T18:59:51.014+00:002022-01-10T18:59:51.014+00:00I'm no photographic expert Prue, but your pict...I'm no photographic expert Prue, but your pictures look rather wonderful to me. Some even feature a colour other than purple! <br />Where I live a couple of jackdaws, I think, have taken to chucking the moss off of rooves and depositing them on the pavement below. Only they seem to know why they do this, I suspect they're looking for insects to eat or possibly unclaimed lottery tickets. They have earned themselves a couple of nicknames locally though, neither of which I could possibly repeat on social media! Hugohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07340639960165395748noreply@blogger.com