Showing posts with label acorns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acorns. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 October 2010

WALNUT THIEF


As Kath at Hill Cottage knows, there's a huge walnut tree three gardens away from me. A squirrel obviously has a favourite branch in my sycamore tree to perch on while he munches on his ill-gotten gains.
He must be the gardener who thinks I need dozens of walnut trees sprouting in the flower beds and plant pots every year. He adds a handful or ten of acorns from the oak tree I grew from an acorn many years ago and these pop up across the garden, too. I can't blame him for the sycamore sproutlings which appear; they, at least, are windborne.

Saturday, 25 September 2010

COMMOTION IN THE OAK TREE

I saw the oak tree branches thrashing about this morning so stopped dressing to see what was causing the disturbance.
A pair of jays were harvesting the acorns, the first time I've seen that. I haven't seen jays in the garden for a couple of years, not even in the cold weather last winter. Nice to know they're still around.
No photos though...