Garden Goodies

At 8.20am this morning, a Green Woodpecker perched half way on the closest branches of the middle tree, but as I passed by the window, it sadly flew off. At 8.40am, both Bullfinches (both male and female) were in the left hand tree- the Rowan/ Mountain Ash tree again feeding on the buds with the male favouring the front of the tree and even the Hebe bush in the garden nearby. The female again perched at the back of the Rowan tree.

I was very sad to hear of the recent very untimely death (from a heart attack) of Gary Moore at just 58, former guitarist with Thin Lizzy who played a mixture of music styles most notably hard rock and modern blues. A guitar virtuoso, who was at his best playing modern blues and hard rock, he reached his peak with the excellent 1990 modern Blues album "Still Got the Blues", which is still one of my favourites. I was fortunate enough to see him in concert at Ipswich Gaumont in 1985. I was planning to see him again, now it will never be, another great musician gone and a very, very sad loss.