15th - I should have been at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Wildside Festival today but last week's rain caused it to be cancelled. The day started oddly with trouble in the garden - a crow perched in a birch tree, eyeing up the pigeons' nest hidden within the leaves. Not something I've seen before, and so far it hasn't returned.
In the evening after the rain stopped, we went to the nature reserve at Swan Lake. The usual wildfowl were there including 24 swans, and a small family of geese protected by two Canada geese and a white 'farmyard' goose. A lot of wildflowers around at the moment - irises, dog roses, clover and vetch.
16th The rain stopped long enough for a sparrow to take a splash in the bird bath, and for water droplets to be visible on leaves rather than everything being one hug wet mess
17th - a walk to the not-so-wild wood near where I live. It used to be wilder but volunteers have been 'tidying' it - cutting back undergrowth to make it appear safer for walkers, then laying those cuttings alongside the paths to stop anyone exploring the off-path areas of the wood (a shame as in Spring there are wood anemones and masses of bluebells, which can't be seen from the path)
18th - we were out at Ashford in the Water to see the well-dressings, and spotted these ducklings by the river.
20th - the 'wild' found its way into the garden, with the return of a regular visitor - a mouse who visits my compost bin. No photos as s/he moves too quickly.
Out later to catch the sunset, though a bank of cloud got in the way. Found a white dog rose growing in a hedge, and tracks of a strange animal in dried mud (OK, they were dog footprints, but they could have been made by something exciting)
21st - a wild sky not long before midnight, so light the sun barely seemed to have set
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