Today at the Ringve Botanical Gardens I found the Allium garden was full of little workers eating the masses of birch seeds that had fallen during the winter….saving me a lot of work later. The first summer, there were thousands of birch seedlings in the garden…
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Ever since I moved here in 1984, it’s been one of the year’s highlights to hear the first robin (rødstrupe) singing in the spring and I’ve recorded this event every year since. However, it’s with mixed feelings that I woke up to this year’s first song this morning, a full 7 weeks earlier than what was normal in the 80s and 2 weeks earlier than my previous record. In the city, birds have been heard singing since January in the record mild January here… A great tit (kjøttmeis) accompanies the robin in the second video!
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There are large numbers of redpolls (gråsisik) around at the moment and this beauty was unfortunate colliding with the living room window….it went well though and he flew away.
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden