Miss Pinot

As most of you know I have not been posting much lately - one of the reasons is that Pinot our Greyhound has the big C, we had a big scare last night and thought she would be with our other dogs that have gone for the big sleep today - however she is tenacious and rallied round so we took her to the confluence of the Loire and Vienne rivers as it is the closest thing to her favourite place THE BEACH we have. The following are some of the shots I took to remember the lovely sunny hour we spent there.

The mark on her shoulder is were her wonderful doctor did an operation to ascertain the type of cancer she has....


  

Is that me

As she spends a lot time with me looking for birds she saw this before me........

if you look closely it is a Kingfisher on the stick

I will add more shots tomorrow - Pinot permitting

Futuroscope

Not wildlife but definitely wild a short visit to Futuroscope just down the road...................

below are shots of the night time spectacular

To celebrate the birth of my Granddaughter Georgia

To celebrate the birth of my new granddaughter Georgia Bociek today I have included below more babies from around the garden.

These are part of the twelve chicks that this young lady has been able to succesfully hatch.

This is the second clutch for her this year.

  This a very young melodious warbler

 

and finally a young Linnet

Outside the back door

A rather battered Swallowtail taking nectar from one of the flowers just by the kitchen door

      A caterpillar of one of the Fritillary Butterflies walking over my dry stone wall

A butiful daisy in the garden with a small white dot near the centre

        The dot is this little chap only a matter of a few millimetres across



    Our bird of the day is the Swallow here with three males two older and one juvenile.

For Scarlett

What we saw at the Zoo.............................................

The new baby having a drink

almost but no bamboo

Bird of the day is the House Martin here feeding ladybirds to its babies 

Syrah sees a Hare

Whilst down the lane Syrah saw a Hare and must have thought she was a greyhound like Pinot
and ran over to it and with the Hare just watching until she was around two feet away and then just left her like she was standing still then ran around the sunflowers tormenting her............

The Bird of the Day is a Housemartin feeding its chicks Ladybirds that are more plentiful than I have ever seem before.

A few little birds

A few of the birds seen around the garden in the last few days...............

Melodious Warbler juvenile

Cirlbunting

Young Pied Wagtail

Serin

Yellowhammer


 

Stonechat Female

Turtle Dove