A day in the garden
Jan 27th, 2008 by Chris
We spent the day working in our newly laid out garden today. We had a bunch of plants to plant in the bog garden, and a Victoria plum tree up at the end of the lawn. We’ve got a little seating area on decking right at the bottom of the garden, in what will be the ‘wildlife area’ when it all gets established. We’ll be sowing a wild flower meadow up there in March, and the pond and bog garden are already taking shape. Whilst up on the seating area I managed to get this snap of a siskin snacking on nyjer seed.
Siskins have become quite a regular visitor to the garden recently, and love the new pond. This morning we also saw a thrush at the bird bath, moving on to the pond after that. This is unusual - we don’t see many thrushes in the garden at all. Earlier in the week I’m pretty sure I saw a grey wagtail too. It was sitting on the shed gutter, then flew off to the pond where it did that classic wagtail bob.