1st May

A beautiful sunset a pinky soft orangey sky. Then after all that rain a cold but sunny May morning. The little snail has moved on slow but sure. The clump of nettles has grown huge so out there to cut it down a bit. It’s for any visiting butterflies.
So hopefully May will be a lovely month it has started with good weather.

Apple Blossom Time

It’s apple blossom time. The apple tree which is an old Kentish one has loads of blossom on looking rather pretty. And the honeysuckle is getting ready to bloom. Blue tits are darting/in and out of the honeysuckle. Still not had the heavy rain yet, but I am sure it will come.  Everything is lush and green

Tiny Snail.

One very tiny snail looking in from the patio door so tiny.  A months rain is expected soon in this neck of the woods . The nettles are growing well!

Fight

Just witnessed a nasty fight between two pigeons and boy was it nasty it was on the roof opposite me, now the victor is strutting along the roof , hope the other pigeon is ok.
Good drying weather out there for towels.

Changable

Changeable weather again a few sharp showers a lot cooler windy again.
The blossom is looking good . Saw bluebells at the weekend they were looking good.

Hares

So excited I saw not one but two hares in their natural habitat. Never ever seen hares in the wild before so privileged to see them. They are so beautiful. So humble I felt seeing them. So elegant.

Mini Heatwave

Mini heat wave at the moment. Blossom is on the trees and bushes. Cats reclaimed the garden from next doors cat.Talking to a friend , she said that pigeons have nested behind her next door neighbours solar pads on the roof and they are not doing anything a bout it.
Parakeets flew overhead chattering away as they do

Very Quiet.

Change of scenery, sitting in a friend’s kitchen waiting for a heating engineer, as friend is on holiday. Looking outside even though they live in a semi rural place it’s very quite very quiet nature wise. Not even seen a hooded crow and there is usually plenty around. Ah but plenty of slugs on the garden path but not snails.
PS. As soon as I posted this snippet a pigeon flew into the monkey puzzle tree . Then an ant came to say hello to me when I was in there, so no it’s not quiet!

Mouse.

While waiting for traffic to clear at a narrow part of a road a mouse pop it’s head out of his or hers hideyhole in the bridge wall it had a good sniff and look round then popped back into its hideyhole.
The early slugs are beginning to come out from wherever they hid in the winter. Not seen any snails yet.

Honeysuckle & Birds

Not sure what the interest of my honeysuckle to the birds, but it had a lot of visitors. A few sparrows came to visit it, then which was a very rare sight to see the female robin came to visit, she darted in and out very quickly and then also what is a very extremely rare sight a wren I could not believe my eyes a wren . Then later on a great tit came along then as the evening came a couple of blue tits came to visit the honeysuckle. And a blackbird sat in the apple tree for quite sometime watching. It was a lovely afternoon watching all these birds.

Frog Spawn.

I forgot to mention that a friend’s pool had some frog spawn in it. My old next door neighbours also had a little pond and that used to have frog spawn as well, I think the new neighbours blocked it up.
Hope the frog spawn in my friends garden will hatch.

April

April is living up to it’s name April showers . Lovely couple of days spring sunny weather then the showers come.
Birds are busy building nest or taking tokens to their sweethearts.
Tulips in the garden will be flowering shortly and that will be very cheerful.

Change.

A change of scenery. The sky is blue a few clouds floating above and the sun is warm. In the distance the sea is twinkling like diamonds too many to number. The wind is brisk but enjoyable.

Quiet

Bumped into a friend who is a real garden enthusiast, she hoping to get into the garden soon as we had so much rain she unable to get out, I admitted to her I am itching to get out there myself, and I surprised myself ! By saying that.
Soon the bluebells will be out and no blossom as yet.
All is quiet here.

Woodpeckers & Hooded Crows

Watching and hearing a woodpecker tapping into the tree. Also watching hooded crows going about their business and a pair are making a nest in a disused chimney. Rain again.

Moon.

Had to get up in the small hours,looked outside and saw the moon so low that I thought if I stretched out my arm I could touch it.