Thank you for your lovely comments Tine. I know that many of our KZbin friends do love nature as much as we do and understand why we have to accept a bird like this Sparrowhawk taking one of our little bird. I am hoping this female stays away from my garden like the last one did 5 years ago. I am not getting out very much as I did with my husband but there are many lovely gardens around where I live and I will try and revisit some this summer. You always find some nice nature walks near you and show us what we seem to miss and that is what makes your videos so interesting. I am trying to visit KZbin more often but now I am on my own I have to do quite a lot of the gardening, which I do enjoy, but it takes a lot of my time up when the days get warmer. Have a happy day Tine, Warmest greetings, Julie 🥀🐥🌷🧡🍀🙂

Thanks for letting me know. I have been surprised how many have been interested in the family. It is in a lovely part of Scotland👍and Scotland is my favourite place to visit. Hope you get to see this castle one day.👍🙂

Thank you Anke. Have a happy day and a lovely weekend.. Warm greetings, Julie

@@quote_nature Thank you Cathy. I was pleased she stayed long enough for me to get enough to make this short video. She had already done the damage as I could see a blue feather. Well, we all have to eat and it was no good trying to frighten her off so she got a meal that day. I looked back at my videos and it is 5 years since a sparrowhawk was in my garden so if I do not see another for as long I cannot complain. Warmest greeting Cathy, Julie

Thank you Linnea. I loved seeing her but I saw what looked like a blue feather near her but I know all these hawks have to eat and they do not kill for fun and so it was too late to chase her away. It is 5 years since the last Sparrowhawk was in the garden so I hope this one stays away for a long time. I would love to see a fox in my garden like you have and what a bonus when she brings her family 👍 I had a trail camera a few years back that was put outside in the front garden and I was lucky to see a fox visit three nights running. After the first night I thought, what can I put out for one if it returns but all I had was peanuts so put some on the grass and that night one came again and seemed to like them. That trail camera is not working now but I am sure a fox does come at night as I have the field and river in front of my house so no roads for one to cross. I love to see your visitors and you do get to show us them in day light as well. It is very, very cold and frosty up here today but the sun is shining. Have a good day Linnea and a wonderful weekend. Warm greetings, Julie.

I think you are great arranging flowers Irene, and all the ones I have see have looked wonderful. I do admire your lovely vases as well. I am terrible at arranging flowers both from the garden and getting some as a gift. I never get it right and end up rearranging many times and still not happy with them. It was my birthday last week and I dreaded what might arrive that would be living, and some did. However one is a nice basket of spring bulbs, all just popping through and I don't have to do anything just keep in damp, I think, but a house plant arrived. Oh dear! First it was left on the porch on a very cold frosty morning also while I was out shopping. I took it in when I got home to find three leaves bent and beyond saving and many leaves have been looking very sad since and I am sure I will lose it. I kill indoor plant with kindness (over-watering usually!) that is why I love outside gardening as plant and flowers are safer there when I am around. Over here in the UK we have been told we are getting gale-force winds today that may cause damage in the north/ north west so I am hoping they will not be that strong where I am. Enjoy lovely warm weather in your garden⛱ Warm greetings, Julie 🙂🦋🌻🌳🍋🌺

@chaldon2viewJ84M Thank you Julie. House plants aren't safe around me either. 😞 The Spring bulbs sound lovely and will provide some cheer on the dull days. Winds seem to be blowing across the world. Stay warm and safe. Best Wishes 🌞

Thanks for leaving a comment. Yes, I do see what you mean but I have been lucky as it is 5 years since a Sparrowhawk was in the my garden and that time it killed a woodpigeon. Hopefully one will not be back for a few years. Have a happy day. Warm greetings, Julie

Hello Mark, you do have some lovely wildlife where you are. I would love to see a Black Bear, that would be a surprise also more Woodpeckers. The only other hawk I see here is the Kestrel but they seem to like the side of a road to look for a mouse or two as I haven't seen one in my garden. I do not get out and about to visit places and gardens like I used to but I lost my dear husband last year so life is not the same. I do like birds in the garden but come summer I will try and revisit some gardens near me. Hope you are keeping well. Take care. Warm greetings, Julie🙂🐤🦆🦢

Thank you Brenda, Life is not the same now and it is taking me a long time to get myself sorted. I haven't moved house so I am finding looking after it and garden takes up a lot of time and my balance problem does slow me down but I am trying to keep the garden as my hubby liked it but I have a nice chap who cuts the grass and he will tackle any large shrubs for me. I do still drive the car but I don't know how long for as I am not getting any younger but I am hoping that we get a nice spring, summer and autumn this year as there are some nice places around me not too many miles away that I would like to revisit but it is not the same when I go on my own. I trust you are keeping well and the treatment you are getting is helping you. Nice to hear from you dear friend. Warmest greetings, Julie🙂

@@chaldon2viewJ84M Bless you Julie!! Thats a lot of work for you!! I also have a balance issue,, can be scary when your our hiking! I was hiking alone during the week!! My Husband just retired in Nov so its nice we can go out daily!! Sometimes there are things that scare me in the deep woods,, not wildlife. I have run into a few drunks and homeless encampments!! A few ppl came up asking me to buy them alcohol!! As a woman thats very scary!! My levels have gone up,, no doubt soon i will be on a new treatment!! Trying to enjoy this time off!! It was so harsh for my body!! Do you have someone who can go hiking with you? I think of you often! You have always been so kind to me!!

It is a shame that we feel like we do as they are so nice to see but I love my little Blue tits and she took one of them so I hope she stays away now. Thank you for viewing Anita. Warm greetings, Julie🙂

Many thanks Khalique for you kind comments. It is a beautiful bird and she did take one of my little Blue tits but we have to accept that nature has a cruel side. I was please to get enough to make this short video and I realise how much I have missed by not having my camera ready. I hope you are keeping well and I hope to see more of my friends videos soon. Warmest greetings, Julie

Many thanks for viewing, Have a happy day, Greetings, Julie🙂

Thank you. I missed not getting out this last year so although this bird is not welcome in my garden it was nice to see her. Have a good day, Warm greetings, Julie.

Yes it is and this bird made me realise what I was missing. Sad she took a Blue tit but I couldn't believe it has been 5 years since I last had one in my garden. Thanks you for viewing. Have a happy day, Greetings, Julie

Many thanks for viewing, Have a happy day, Greetings, Julie🙂

Many thanks for viewing. She was quite cheeky as I know she could see the camera. She may have move on now she ate one of the little blue tits as I don't want her to have another one🤔. Have a happy day, Warm greetings, Julie.

Thanks for viewing Irene. It was nice to see that sparrow hawk and it got me back to getting my camera out again. I have seen your lovely flower arrangements these last few weeks. Wish I could be good at that. I had three lovely tall stems back in late October on a rose that was a gift or my birthday last year. the top of each stem was covered in buds and I though how lovely they would look in a vase. All the wanted was a few days of sun and I was going to cut all three stems and bring then inside. Never got chance, that October was wet and windy and one day we got a very cold night and every bud was damaged, so that was the end of my vase of flowers. I haven' got out and about since last August so I might try and get all the photos and footage of my garden sorted into a video, I will have to see. Hope all is OK with you and your garden. Any plans still to sell up? You have a beautiful garden and it always looks lovely but I realise it takes a lot of up keep and you have done wonders since you moved there. Let me know how things are. Warmest greeting, Julie🙂🍀👍🌸🌼💕

A big thank you for viewing. I am happy you liked this bird. she was lovely but I wish she hadn't taken one of my little Blue Tit. Have a happy day, Greetings, Julie🙂

@@chaldon2viewJ84M It happens sometimes. My favorite blackbird was taken away by a bird of prey right before

It certainly made me realise what I was missing Carmen She took one of my Blue Tits but it might be another 5 years before I have another sparrowhawk in my garden and she did stay quite a long time for me to get this footage. I hope she doesn't stay around too long Warmest greetings, Julie

That is a problem Steve, when I have feeder around for the little birds. I suppose I have been lucky as it is 5 years since I took a video of a female Sparrowhawk that killed a woodpigeon in my garden. He had a poorly leg and would hide in the shrubs a lot so I was feeding him in the hope its leg would get better. I didn't know the sparrow hawk had killed it until I found some of it in one of the flower boarders. We just have to accept these things happen and hope sparrowhawks stays away from my garden for a few years. Still that one got me back to having my camera ready when I see birds on the feeders. I saw the yellowhammers were back last week but haven't got any footage of them yet. Have a great weekend and I hope spring gets here soon and is better this year as I am fed up with all these dull days. Warm greetings, Julie 🙂🍀

Hi Helena, I have tried sending you a message on my mobile phone but I am so slow on it and it is too small to type on. I prefer the computer and I really do not like these smart phones as all. Thank you for viewing this Sparrowhawk and you are so right in that we have lots of shops to get out food from. Last week I got a few second of a Rook that came to a front garden feeder that I had put a suet ball in the try hoping some little birds would find it easy to have a peck at. Well, this Rook ( it wasn't Rooky) was very big and it was hammering the suet ball with its beak, really bashing it until is saw me and flew off. It would have been crumbs the way that Rook was going at it and I will keep what I got on my camera and hope to put it into a video some time with the other birds I have had in the garden in the last 3-4 months of last year. I am not getting out much so I also have a lot of my garden saved for a video but I cannot seem to have time to get the editing done. I have enjoyed getting on KZbin a little more this last week as I have not had to bother with the garden at all this month and perhaps next as well. Hope you are keeping well and the weather is not too cold in Berlin. Take care. Warm greetings from chilly North Yorkshire, Julie🙂

Thank you Paul. It was nice to see a female Sparrowhawk again but sad she took one of the Blue tits. Looking back, it is 5 years since I last had one in my garden and looking at the video I made then so I cannot complain. Just hope she move on and away from my garden. Have a happy day, Greetings, Julie 🙂

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Thank you dear Hans- Peter for your kind comments. I loved seeing that Sparrowhawk but sad it took one of the little Blue tits. However it has been 5 years since I last had a female sparrowhawk in my garden so my feathered friends have been safe all that time. Hope you are keeping warm on these cold winter days. Take care, Warm greetings, Julie

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Thank you for viewing Spencer. I almost forgot the footage I took that day because I felt there wasn't enough for a video. However Phil was asking if I had put it on my channel so I thought I would with a few of the stills I took to pad it out a bit. I have been so lucky to get a Sparrowhawk in another video When I looked back it was 5 years ago when I had one in the garden and that killed a Woodpigeon! How time flies This one did take one of the little Blue tits so very sad but that's the cruel side of nature. Thankfully I haven't had that many bird taken from my garden that I know of. Warm greetings, Julie.

Hi Geoff, Nice to hear from you and I hope you are well as I don't get on the computer much as I never seem to find the time. Have you been to the US again this last summer? I hope I haven't missed any of your videos but I am trying to get on and look at KZbin when I can my garden doesn't need much attention. I have not been too well and tired all the time but I am now having injections every three months to help and hope they work soon. I was lucky to get to this garden as I had not got to any places in summer as I hoped. One garden I did try to see is not too far and I did drive there in early summer but when I got there no parking space were left and none outside either so I just have to go back home. I will go back, if I keep the car next year but I was happy to get to see the new garden last August and Phil (who takes the Lake District photos), his wife and Toby the dog came to visit me for the weekend from Aldemaston where they live and they had read in one of their news papers that the new garden would be open so they took me to see it which was a trea. It was so busy as it was only opened to the public a week before and I just had to get some video footage as best I could, also I had not used my camera much for a few months. I hope to get back next year, on a quieter day and see how the garden has coped over our winter. I enjoyed that day, but it was not the same as with my husband as we both loved going there most years as, being so close, and NTS members, we could pop in for a sort vist. I am so pleased I got on the computer this morning and saw your message Geoff. I wish you also a Merry Christmas and a Very Healthy and Happy New Year, Warm greetings, Julie.

@@منوعاتامماريا-م1ز Thank you for visiting my channel. Have a happy day. Warm greetings, Julie

@@1HarryH Thank you Harry. It was wonderful day with the sun all that day. Ther is so much to see there for children as well as their parents.I wish you a Merry Christmas dear friend and Wonderful and Happy New Year 😊

Thank you Jake. I do not get time to put much on my channel since my husband died suddenly in Spring 2023. It was big shock and I do miss him. I have the car and hope, next year, to get to some places near home but it is not the same on my own. I had Phil and his wife staying with me that weekend , they live near Aldermaston, south of reading , but this wife read about the new garden in one of their news papers so they wanted to see it. It is very near me so I went with them and took as much video as I could but it was very busy as they had only opened it to the public the week before. I will go back next year when it is a little quieter. I would love to have visited Cliffords Tower in York with my husband as we had it planned for that summer but never got there. You would love Historic York so if you ever get up here you should visit it. I was born and lived in York until I married, and when young my sister and I would go there and climb up the hill to the top and go inside the tower...it was open then to anyone and no charge! I will look out for any places you get to visit when I find time to get on KZbin a little more as well. Have a Merry Christmas Jake. Warm greetings, Julie

Thank you for replying, Julie. I am a student so have little time to visit botanic and pleasure gardens but I am interested in learning about the horticulture of our planet and the more interesting species with which we share it. Your videos are a great way to get a taste of these places without actually travelling there, especially for the ones up in the North and Scotland where it would be far out of my way to travel. I always find it fascinating to learn about different plants and if you look on my channel, you can see our tree project to identify a local arboretum, and through that I learnt about many exotic species and developed an interest for arboriculture and wider horticulture, which is just an occasional hobby and I still have a fairly hollow knowledge of it. You have a fantastic hobby in visiting these places. Botanic gardens are wonderful places to see the elements of beauty on our planet that we might otherwise never get to see in our life, so always value those visits because you might come across a "once in a lifetime" viewing! Hope you had a Happy Christmas. Jake

@@turtledrum7386 Hello Dear Linda. I have been trying to get a video finished that I started couple of months ago but I cannot seem to have long enough to get my mind on it. I am a little under the weather and was hoping I would feel better by now. I is lovely ti hear from you and I hope you are well and have a wonderful Christmas. I will have to snap out of the ay I feel as I have some visitors popping in just before Christmas. The have come across from Norway wher the live and work nowadays have come for Christmas to spend it with their parents so I will see their two little girls as it is I haven't seen them since before my dear husband passed away. I know they miss him so I must be brave. I am spending Christmas on my own as that is my choice so I hope to catch up and see a few KZbin videos and perhaps get my garden birds finished. I wish you a healthy and happy NewYear dear Linda. Warmest greetings, Julie🐦🍸🌟

Thank you Harry for your kind comments. I got back to using my camera late that year year. As you know lost my husband suddenly in the March and lost interest in everything even my camera and still do not get out and about much yet . However the last few weeks I have been editing some footage I took of a bird that got me back to using my camera again after my husband died and I hope to finish it soon. The most unlikely bird got me interested again so thought I would use the footage I took that day to show my friends the most unlikely bird who got me back to my camera. I then added some of my feathered friend that came to my garden feeders the rest of that year. I miss seeing a lot of KZbin friends videos but will try and get to visit more often. Have a happy day Harry. Warm greetings, Julie 🙏🍁🐤

@TheresLefebvreComposerPianist Thank you for your kind comment Therese. The National Trust have taken a lot of care redesigning this garden and only opened it to the public one week before I managed to see it. I enjoyed the visit but it was so busy and I hope to go back again sometime next year on a quieter day and take in all the changes that has been made. Have a wonderful day. Warmest greeting. Julie🌞🎵🔆

@emptynest2travel Thank you for viewing. The garden is a new one and taken a few years to, at last, open to the public a week before I went. I hope to revisit it next summer on a quieter day and see how it is after one of our North Yorkshire winter. Have a happy week. Warm greeting, Julie⛅️🐦

Hello Linda. It was a nice surprise to see you came and visited Phil's photos again. Just last week Phil and his wife dropped in to see me on their way back home from a week in the Lake District. They had a late holiday this year as their daughter got married in early October when they usually have a week away. Phil said he got some walking in but the weather was low cloud most days but he did go on hill walks and got above the cloud for some sun in places. He will send me his photos when he gets them ready as he knows I love to see them and perhaps there might be enough for a little video... if he wants me to make one like I did with this one. I hope you are also keeping well dear Linda. Time goes by fast some days and other so slow but I am getting a little better between the bad days. Wish I could get out more. I have the car so get my shopping in and would like to get out more next year but it is not the same on my own and I do not know how long I can drive for. I have a lovely chap who cuts the grass for me and will do any harder jobs in the garden but I still like to do a lot myself. It takes me away from over thinking and I get back in feeling better that I have got something done. Unfortunately my balance problem, that I got after the back op. I had over 4 years ago, is getting worse, still, I can drive the car and I manage in the garden with a long handle fork and hoe. Good that no one sees me as I must look odd at times but I do get a lot done. Now the garden is asleep for winter so I might get more time on KZbin soon. I loved listening to two of your songs that I found this afternoon. You have such beautiful lyric to all your song and the two today were wonderful. I look forward to all your poetic words as well as your music and lovely, calm singing voice. I know I must have missed some these past 20 months but I will find them when I have time. It is getting frosty on a night over here and chilly days now and I don't like winter much at all. Have a wonderful weekend dear friend. Thank you for all the help you have given me over these last months dear friend. Take care and keep well Linda. Warmest greetings, Julie 👍🍂🎵🍀

@MoreliaAustralia Thank you for viewing. I think is is nice to have plants in your garden that grow well, especially when the come from other parts of the world👍 There are many here in the UK that were brought back from other parts but some do not do well in North Yorkshir where it can get too cold for them so it is a case of trying ad see which ones survive our winters. I hope to visit this garden next year, when it is quieter than it is and see how it is coming on. Have a great day. Warm greetings, Julie 🌸🐦

@ClassRoutinesRENEEsFunClips Thank you for your kind comments. I think the garden is lovely to walk around and the gardeners have done a good job. I hope it survives our cold winters, and I hope o visit it again next year and go on a quieter day than it was as the gardn had only been open to the public a week. Have a great week. Warm greetings, Julie ⛅️ 🌸