By Slanted Light

Blimey — had no idea parakeets were so aggressive to woodpeckers! I'd never seen a woodpecker until I lived in Cambs., and was so chuffed then. Then I never saw one once I'd moved to Somerset — until this year, when there seems to be one living down by the river, so I'm all chuffed again. It's a different kind to the Cambs. one too. So yeay — I really hope your woodpeckers hang around, cos they're cool...

Nah, the cows can't come up to my window — there's a fence between my garden and them, and my office shed faces the other way. But they can come up to my fence, and did when I was out there the other day. They're nosy buggers, as the farmer says... *g* But I can see them through my kitchen windows too — they could conceivably come up to that window if the gate was left open while they were going back and forth from milking, and they decided to be nosy — but it's not happened yet, and they'd also have to manoevre around my car and recycling bins. *g*