Kitkat 238 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Whatever they are, they’re gorgeous 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 15, 2020 Author Share Posted June 15, 2020 Yes, I'd have to go with that. I wonder how on earth they got their name? They can't grow over there, surely? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kitkat 238 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Life finds a way! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 17, 2020 Author Share Posted June 17, 2020 The terns have started laying. If they're dive bombing you, it's because you're walking through their nests. Get out of their nesting zone and they will leave you alone. They are only protecting their chicks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 This is growing wild at Brora Railway Station. Mr Google isn't helping much with ID. Anyone know? It was probably planted a long time ago. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kitkat 238 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Pretty sure they’re Lupins https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/lupin-the-governor/t57859tm Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Yep, that will do. How come Mr Google works for you? He told me Hyacinths or Bluebonnets. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Rather happy with this one of a jackdaw perched above the River Brora looking down at the entrance to its nest. Totally ignored me as all it could think about was the chicks in the nest. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Here's what I've learned about these lupins: Bluebonnet is Lupinus texensis, from Texas, but doesn't grow well in UK. This one is a cultivar of probably Lupinus nootkatensis - that's the species most lupins in UK derive from (from southeastern Alaska, the lupin best adapted to our climate), though some garden cultivars are hybrids too. There are also quite a lot in UK derived from Lupinus polyphyllus (another western N American species closely related to L. nootkatensis). 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Greenfinches have started visiting my nut feeder! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kitkat 238 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 I've been thinking about getting a bird bath/bird feeder. My cat died last year so I feel it is now safe to! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Sad news about your cat. That must have hurt. I love watching the birds from my desk. Some of them even come up to the window and watch me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kitkat 238 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Thank you. It wouldn’t have been fair to the birds when she was alive. I’d put out food for them in the winter, just on the ground, but make sure Maeve was inside. Otherwise things could have got messy! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Good idea. Cats will be cats though. I mean, if you lived out in the Far East on the fringes of the jungle a cat would probably save your life a dozen times a week catching horrid little things that scamper around at night. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
George 618 Posted June 22, 2020 Author Share Posted June 22, 2020 Today I think I'll have the ocean for lunch. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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