It's been a busy week for wildlife in the garden, particularly round the bird bath with robins, pigeons, blackbirds and even a magpie dropping by. One day a baby robin sat in the water while one of its parents flew back and forth with food for it! No more appearances from the squirrel though.
If you can separate wildlife into two categories of 'good' and 'bad', birds and even the squirrel fall in the former. In the other group are slugs (found nestled in the middle of one of my cabbages), and these sawfly caterpillars which I found eating away all the leaves on the solomon's seal. It's fortunate for the caterpillars that they've got a rather niche taste in food, and are reputed to not eat anything other than this one plant; it's finished flowering, and doesn't look attractive with its leaves stripped, but will recover, so I squirted some of the bugs away with a water spray, and left the rest to their dinner.
One evening, after yet another wet day, I went out for a stroll around the nearby playing fields and found signs of
autumn already on the way!
And on the solstice I went out to see the sun set. It wasn't remarkable but I listened to the birds singing their goodnight songs, and on the way home saw bats flitting about
It's been a busy week for wildlife in the garden, particularly round the bird bath with robins, pigeons, blackbirds and even a magpie dropping by. One day a baby robin sat in the water while one of its parents flew back and forth with food for it! No more appearances from the squirrel though.
If you can separate wildlife into two categories of 'good' and 'bad', birds and even the squirrel fall in the former. In the other group are slugs (found nestled in the middle of one of my cabbages), and these sawfly caterpillars which I found eating away all the leaves on the solomon's seal. It's fortunate for the caterpillars that they've got a rather niche taste in food, and are reputed to not eat anything other than this one plant; it's finished flowering, and doesn't look attractive with its leaves stripped, but will recover, so I squirted some of the bugs away with a water spray, and left the rest to their dinner. 
One evening, after yet another wet day, I went out for a stroll around the nearby playing fields and found signs of autumn already on the way!
And on the solstice I went out to see the sun set. It wasn't remarkable but I listened to the birds singing their goodnight songs, and on the way home saw bats flitting about
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