Blue Tit Big Brother

And other stories from the garden

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Bully at the bird table

I made marmalade today—a rewarding but messy business that consequently involves a lot of time standing at the kitchen sink washing things up. The window by the kitchen sink looks out across the patio, where we have a ground feeder and various other things to attract birds.
The cold weather seems to have brought in a [...]

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Butterflies

There seem to be an awful lot of butterflies around the garden at the moment. Mostly it’s white things fluttering around the nasturtiums but we’ve spotted the occasional more interesting butterfly. Or moth. I’m not even sure what the difference between butterflies and moths is, so no hope of working out the species!
This little beastie [...]

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The Scilly excursion

Since this is a blog about the wildlife in our garden it seems only right to say a few words about the wildlife in our garden of the moment. Right now we’re on holiday and ‘our garden’ is the gorgeous St Martins Campsite on the Isles of Scilly. I first came here 40 years ago, [...]

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Around the garden

Time for an update on the rest of the garden…
The mini-meadow is still not a blaze of beautiful wild flowers, but it’s a lot better than it was last year. There’s clearly a lot of different species of something in there—it’s just that it’s mostly leaves at the moment, so I’ve no idea what they [...]

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Fritillaries

Another sign that spring is coming. The frilillaries that we planted last autumn have come up around the pond. We noticed them last Friday, but just haven’t had time to get a photograph until now. Here they are…

Hopefully they’ll be more wildflowers to come.

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