Vacant Bird House to Let.

There's a lot of activity going on around our house at the moment. 

and I'm learning to use our new camera
so I've been taking lots of pictures'

The birds are house hunting.

But we have no takers at the moment.

This year I'm providing soft wadding for the interior.

It does look as if it's being used.

 I've been getting lots of  practise shooting moving things

  

The following photos were taken from the kitchen window.

using  burst mode. Do I sound like I know what I'm talking about ?

( new technique to me )

I would just like to inform anyone who might be thinking this is a photo shoot tutorial

you'll be disappointed.

It's just me feeling very proud of myself 

 knowing I have taken photos I feel worthy to post on my blog.

I still have a big L plate on my back.

I'll let you into a secret now

when I first started my blog, nearly a year ago

I used to get my other half to take my photos.

                                                                                                   

Do you see anything strange about this cute  little bird ?

He has a deformed leg

but he can certainly hold his own battles against the other birds.

(I call it he, I don't know why)

I've been watching and he's been coming every day

for over a week now, so thought I'd try catching a picture of him.

That was how I learnt about the burst mode on the camera.

I won't tell you how many burst shots it took to get six good photos !

This is such a pretty bird house, 

 hand made and  was a present from my daughter.

Not sure where to put it yet !

maybe I'll just use it as a garden adornment.

Last year the bird house & the enamel ware were occupied several times

  with Blue tits and the Red start.

We don't have a great selection of birds coming near to the house.

 but we do get keen bird watchers coming to stay in La Petite Maison. 

as we are surrounded by woods  only a short walk away.

I hope you liked seeing the birds we feed everyday,

 especially our cute  little disabled Blue tit.

à bientôt
Barbara Lilian.

Welcome to the 1st page of my new blog.

Welcome to my blog. As yet I'm not quite sure what path it will folow, as I dabble in so so many things ...    at the moment being Springtime my priority is the garden, so the watercolour painting has gone on hold, but there's always meals to be cooked & cakes & puddings to be baked. A gift for someone, so that's usualy a quick cross stitch or a patchwork item sometimes a pretty posy from the flowers in the garden or wild flowers from our field. So I hope amongst some of my interests you might find something you like, if not on the 1st visit maybe another time.

When I started to learn water colour painting late in my life, I began to search on the internet & after reading several blogs & signing up to the ones I really liked; I became more interested  in blogging or whatever one calls it ! I had always said, 'why would anyone ever want to read about what other people are doing' Well that's what I've been doing, so now I've decided to make a blog of my own. I don't know if anyone will be interested in what I do, have done or would like to do, but whatever.. here goes & even if no one logs onto my blog to have a peep, I will have a collection of my memories for my Grandchildren to read when I'm gone.

I don't know how often I will be posting things on it, that will depend on the spare time I can find in between the new garden project I am helping my lovely husband create. I am the planner/designer of the project & he is the do-er. Plus all the other 101 things I have on the go (probably like most of you out there) The rest of the garden is badly in need of some TLC which was badly hit this winter by the really low temp. & very hard frosts we experienced. We lost so many shrubs, I'm not sure where to start. Also the holiday season will soon be upon us & we have two holiday gites which we let, so that takes up a lot of my time.

I will make a big effort to keep things coming, even if it's only a picture or two of things I have seen or have been doing, which makes me feel happy & I hope will be pleasing to you out there, where ever you are !

 I'll try & see if I can successfuly post a couple of photos !   then I'll sign off.

The end of Winter for the Blue-tits.





Daffodils in the wild part of the garden. 

 

The 1st Tulips 

Bye for now

Barbara Lilian