keaalu | Spring is sprung, the grass is ris

I wonder where the birdies is?

Oh yeah, wait, no, I know where the birdies is - the pigeons, at least. ON MY BALCONY, TROUGHING THROUGH THE FOOD DISH. Hurr.

( Remember This? )

Well... :3 MY DAFFODILS ARE OUT! eeeee

	Daffodils! At last, we have bloom! I was looking out of the kitchen window while I was washing up, and happened to notice a daffodil in the reflection on the window. After thinking "ooh, I wonder who they belong to"... I realised it was MINE! Soooo I had to get my camera out and run around taking photographs. :3
	Daffodils 2! The clump of little bulbs down in the front corner of this photograph are grape hyacinths; they looked like little dry husks of dead bulb and I mostly forgot about them. I had to hastily plop them down in the tub when they began to grow in one of my cupboards. ¬_¬
	Daffodils 3! The first bloom! Teeechnically, most of the "flowers" are still in bud, and I've had one bud that's been "half out" for about a week, so I think it's done all it's going to...
	Daffodils 4! My little spring garden.

I love the way the whole world seems to have gone *BUD!* in the last week, with all the trees covered in little blobs of bright green. At the other end of the balcony, the clematis that I was convinced I had finally killed last year (the stem broke in half and it looked pretty dead) is also making a spirited recovery. :3

I'd like to have a firecracker vine, eventually, but I'll have to work out how to grow it first. My parents have one in their garden, and I love it, I use it in most of my art that requires some form of flower. XD

I did also capture the "food thief" - I wondered why the tray of food that used to need topping up once a week or so was suddenly ending up emptied over the course of a day... and then I worked it out.

	Wood Pigeon This is the shameless bird that eats 50% of the food I put out for the little birds like the robins and dunnocks. (The other 50% is eaten by the mob of starlings, who seem to prefer to throw a load of it on the floor. At least the robins are happy to eat that.)
	Wood Pigeon 2 It seems completely unafraid of me - it doesn't move if I approach the balcony, and only lumbers off if I open a door or a window. I was literally only a metre or so away when I took this.
	Wood Pigeon 3 "See how much I don't care, human, look at me looking away to show you how little I care that you're coming over with your scary black box."