Inspector Clouseau I’m not. I didn’t even know a crime was even being committed at my 12-port bird feeder. Perhaps ‘a crime’ is a bit strong – an act of vandalism is more accurate. Accidental damage would be the plea from the suspect. Evidence of a feeder port and a perching loop has been recovered… Read More #30DaysWild Day 20 – Feeder port drop solved
Today’s ‘do something for wildlife’ was a very quick and easy job. It will reduce the spilling of bird seed (mess and waste) and smaller birds will appreciate the extra space for landing, perching and feeding. Less trampling of plants below the feeder will be great too 🙂 Being Father’s Day here in the UK,… Read More #30DaysWild Day 19 – Bird feeder seed tray
Warm sunshine brought us out into the garden to catch up on a few jobs today. It also had us by the wildlife pond edge looking closely for our tadpoles as few were being seen. A quick movement along the stems of the corkscrew rush caught our attention and it was a quick dash for… Read More #30DaysWild Day 18 – New pond visitor
Blogging for 10½ years has led the garden along many paths. Many shades of green and foliage plants have given way to colour and a variety of flower shapes in the borders. Taking photographs goes hand in hand with blogging and with the flowers came pollinators and many photo opportunites. Happy to be doing my… Read More #30DaysWild Day 17 – Perhaps not helping bees 🙁
The garden building under assessment, having gone through planning and near completion, is a modest Bug Hotel. A luxury Frog House is the change of use currently being considered for this building. As this change is more suitable for the occupants of the surrounding area, it has been recommended for approval. Building works will resume… Read More #30DaysWild Day 16 – Change of use
The rain has continued, making a free format approach to daily blog posts on doing something wild for nature more of a challenge. In theory, I did work with soil again but perhaps weeding in gravel and between paving slabs doesn’t really count. It certainly doesn’t sound very connecting to nature like – I got… Read More #30DaysWild Day 15 – Mature Trees
The reward the garden is getting tonight is much needed rain. It’s been raining most of the day. So how can do you do something wild and make room for nature when it’s wet outside, getting dark and that’s the only time of the day you can get into your garden? Well, if you’re daft… Read More #30DaysWild Day 14 – Garden rewards
Tonight’s images were, quite literally, shots in the dark using my zoom lens with the setting set to night portrait. It was an experiment to see if any pond life could be seen on the plants growing in my wildlife pond. It’s always fun uploading photos like these to see if there are any surprises.… Read More #30DaysWild Day 13 – Possible damselfly eggs?
In complete contrast to the late evening, torch garden wander looking for moths last night, it was a very early start wildlife watching indoors this morning. My alarm was set for 4:15am and I managed to successfully complete the task I had set myself – to get up! Suspecting strongly that our Coal tit chicks… Read More #30DaysWild Day 12 – Nest box watch
There was a light drizzle of rain at dusk and as darkness fell it was a torch wander in search of moths on the Ivy of my pergola. I’ve seen them there before. Alas, I only saw one small one (no idea what it was) but plenty of snails were to be seen. I’ve seen… Read More #30DaysWild Day 11 – Out with a torch