And other stories from the garden
It has been a gorgeous, warm sunny day at last and I’ve had an afternoon in the garden! The pond is seething with tadpoles—there are great wriggling balls of them. This film only really shows them up where they are a bit more spread out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbCXyZQ51o
The fritillaries are out and so are the comma butterflies
And there [...]
Another sign of spring—we have tadpoles! Some of the frog spawn in the pond is showing definite signs of wiggling. Here is an attempt at some film:
https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/frogspawn-20090324-1.flv
https://secure.raggedstaff.net/nestwatch/frogspawn-20090324-2.flv
After watching a DVD yesterday evening (Beowulf—not nearly as bad as the opening scenes suggested it was going to be) we flicked the TV over to see if anything was going on on the PondCam. Three pairs of eyes glowed bright in the infrared light. After a while there was a good deal of splashing [...]
Things are starting to look great in the garden now. The brown mess that was the lawn after it had been scarified is now lush and green, and the new area of lawn is starting to look a bit like a lawn. The wild flower meadow has been a little disappointing. We’ve had no flowers, [...]