Great Tit Nesting Box - Image of the Week #18

Telling a Story - is the prompt for the Image of the Week at Truly Madly Kids, here is what Penny says: "Sometimes a photograph has many things about it that make it precious. It could be the setting, it could be something in the frame, it could be the reaction on a face to something, or even something lurking in the background of a shot. These are the images that tell a story."

My story is all about a little family of Great Tits who chose to nest in the hollow framework of our tractor bale spike, as you can see it makes the perfect nest box!  We enjoyed watching the parent birds flying backwards and forwards carrying insects to feed their young.  The birds have now fledged so must have been quite large when I took these photographs.

There were better photographs than the one I have chosen for the Image of the Week, but this is the one I felt was most likely to 'tell the story'.  Here are few of the others below:

A special delivery on the farm!

 

Last Sunday we took delivery of  a dozen weaned calves.  They will spend a couple of months in the shed then go out into the fields until October when we will sell them on to other farmers in October. We have no livestock November to January and then start again in February, it works well for us as we both work full time.

No matter how often we have done this there is always a frisson of excitement and anticipation when the calves arrive in their trailer.

They seem to have settled in well, this 'red' and white calf is a bit of a character and was having a good look out of the window!

Brian had a bit of trouble with the silage bale as it was quite soft and wouldn't stay on the spike.  However, it is excellent quality and the calves are eating it well.

365+1 - Wheel

Gingerscraps - Scrap Your Life

We are getting some big drainage pipes put in the burn (stream) in one of our fields, the guy who brought them has left his huge tractor in our yard for a couple of days and I nipped out to get a photo of the wheel which is much more impressive than the ones on our tractors! 

It's the last day of the month and I've managed to keep up with the photos and scrapping them.  Let's see what next month brings!

Stuck Static

My DS1 and his fiance have to leave the house they are renting fairly soon and have decided that while they save to buy or build their own place, they will live in a static caravan/mobile home/trailer in our field! So they went ahead and bought this 12ft wide home and had it delivered last Tuesday, only to find that although it got down the road, it couldn't get into the yard because of the buildings and the angles.

There have been various alterations going on all week, but today was the big day, we needed our road back again if nothing else!
This is a bit like the bit in Winnie the Pooh where Rabbit goes out of his burrow to see Pooh sticking out the other end (having eaten too much hunny and got stuck), so yes that is what it looked like at the other end. Just as well we have two roads into our farm!

A close-up of the stuckness

And finally, UNSTUCK! I took this from the window, it gives you a good idea of the size of this thing.

It's BIG

This is as far as we have got it, there was a lot of man handling as well as tractor pulling to get it to this position, but there is a bit of a dip into the field so we need to fill that with gravel before it can be sited in final position. I have to say that is pretty fab inside, lots of room in the living room and a biggish kitchen diner. The bedrooms are not so big, but they may knock two into one as the walls can be taken out.

More news on this development soon!