Isle of Wight Green Gym - Official Blog.: Wed 13th May 2020

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Wed 13th May 2020 - GG Virtual Session # 008.

This week's happy bunch of Green Gym Zoomers...!

Once again there were a few teething problems as we tried to get on line. For some strange reason, Zoom now wants you to enter a pass code to join the meeting 😏. Mark had a problem with sound and I kept getting an onscreen message saying that my internet was "unstable"...goodness only knows what one does about that...! It seems that we are still in good health and managing to exist under these rather strange circumstance - well done everyone 👍.

I have had a few photos sent in over the past week, the first of which are from Geoff... (he added this note) This handsome cock pheasant wakes us up about 5:30 most mornings before starting a forage round the garden. There's his mate by the bird feeders. Blue tits have been very busy bringing tasty meals for the young. Must be near fledging now.

Geoff..(Part 2). Lovely display of sea pink or thrift on Freshwater cliffs.

What beautiful scenery...now you know why we live here on the Island 👍

The next two are a bit of a puzzle.... they arrived anonymously but I suspect they may be from Steve (?) The only message with them was.... Just something for the blog Bob. Queen Bower water reservoir and path to hill farm.

Terry sent in these with the comment...

I have attached some photos, one of Afton Marsh (19 February and two of Golden Hill (11 March).

If you zoom in on the Afton Marsh photo you can see the trees that we cut down all stacked up.
You will recall that it was rather muddier when we visited it last time.

And, my contribution was taken, last weekend, up on Brading Down. As far as I could see there was NO ragwort in the area but it is still early in the season.

My nesting blue tits are still working flat out to feed the youngsters. One of them decided, with no regard for the Covid-19 regs, to pop indoors for a visit.....