The blackbirds have been doing a lot of chasing and flapping since Valentine’s Day, (traditionally when all the birds get married), and a few days ago I realised that Mrs Blackbird has started gathering nest materials. I’ve captured some rather wobbly video of her hard at work, but I’m trying not to put her off […]
Last night I sat down to the first 2 episodes of Sarah Raven’s ‘Bees, Butterflies and Blooms‘, and was inspired! Sarah Raven is a well established writer and wildlife gardening expert on a mission to ‘get Britain buzzing‘ again. Over the last few years she has been working hard to persuade us all to help […]
We had a casualty yesterday, a beautiful goldfinch. I didn’t hear the impact, but there were telltale feather fragments stuck to the glass above – a fatal windowstrike. The bird itself was unmarked and exquisite, with velvety red face mask and yellow and black plumes, but unmistakeably dead. The usual advice is to double bag […]