New recipe and bird pics

I spent a fair bit of time in the kitchen today. Tina had brought a very large bag of pears home last week that needed attention. Peeled and sliced them and blanched them so they are now on the freezer for use another time. When I was in America Patty’s Mum Pat made zucchini bread which was really nice. Found a recipe and used my yellow courgettes, but will still call it zucchini bread as that sounds more exotic! I only had one loaf tin so made one cake shaped, both turned out well and it is really very tasty! Too tasty, especially with lashings of butter on!

I took the camera with a good zoom out into the garden and sat in the summer house, haven’t done that for a while now. I topped up the fat ball feeders and a lot of tits appeared and the robin. Will post a few, I think some are of Scruffy which is good to see.

One different bird appeared fleetingly, the picture isn’t great but it didn’t return. Will have to look it up!

One lovely dahlia that has appeared in the garden.

A couple more photos, yesterday at the shop I got some sunflowers greatly reduced. The other flowers were the survivors from the previous bunch.

And if you have good eyes and can zoom in there is a woodpecker on the dead tree! Only had the phone out there....