mackem 23,765 Posted July 23, 2022 Report Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, sussex said: Quite common down here , saying that the variety of bird life down here is one of the things I miss most about home .. The last one I saw was in Javea mate, used to get a lot of black-restarts and shrikes in the garden also. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nicepix 5,650 Posted July 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 (edited) It is strange how life turns out. When my wife and I first got together she bought an apartment in Cyprus with what I called her redundancy money, from her divorce. We used to spend days driving around the remote areas looking for the sort of birds we now get in our garden. Hoopoes, golden orioles, four kinds of woodpecker, hawfinch, even a rose ringed parakeet and wryneck one year. And out on mole-patrol I see all the raptors and water birds that we used to go and see in Cyprus. Same with orchids. We used to find the places where different species grew. Now we are falling over them. One of my customers couldn't get out to his holiday home because of covid and his gardener retired. What once was an area of short grass in his garden quickly became populated with bee, pyramidial and green orchids. Edited July 24, 2022 by Nicepix 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sussex 5,776 Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 12 hours ago, mackem said: The last one I saw was in Javea mate, used to get a lot of black-restarts and shrikes in the garden also. I’ve just had breakfast in La siesta , there was every variety of tit you could wish to see …and some you wished you hadn’t seen .. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,765 Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, sussex said: I’ve just had breakfast in La siesta , there was every variety of tit you could wish to see …and some you wished you hadn’t seen .. Does Roz the Scottish lady still own the bar down in town, her husband had sparta gym also? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,481 Posted July 24, 2022 Report Share Posted July 24, 2022 what a lovely visitor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 26,185 Posted July 25, 2022 Report Share Posted July 25, 2022 Was 19 and in Ibiza with my mate, I spotted a hoopoe in the hotel garden, being an outside type geek I thought it was great (never seen one before apart from in my Collins bird book lol)... course we were over there to pull birds and drink beer, not spot the feathered kind...my mate called me an odd c**t and proceeded to nearest bar...lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nicepix 5,650 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2022 He's back! This time he gate crashed through the front patio window. I'm going to have to take out a restraining order! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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