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 [...]
I did mean to post something on Saturday, but I kind of got distracted. I feel I should record the events of Saturday though, if only so that in future years we can look back and see when it all happened.
So, as reported on Twitter, on Saturday 27th March we saw the first signs of [...]
Posted in Garden on Apr 1st, 2009
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.
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 [...]