Loads of everything by me. Except slugs on the march. I posted a photo of the ground a couple of weeks ago after it rained. Hundreds came out for the wet. But none out and about at the moment.
Leaving water out is so important now. Even though I have a pond, I leave saucers out with stones in for bees and insects.
I saw a small dead mole in the lane and my daughter had one in her garden. They must be struggling to find worms.
I wish ours would struggle to find worms as he's ruining my garden and we will probably have to get the mole man in sadly. We tried a humane trap as we know a suitable wildlife area away from houses that we could have released it to but we just couldn't catch him.
Seeing loads of wildlife, rabbits, stoats, birds plus feldglings galore, but I guess that might be because they are being bolder in the seach for food and water. We've even had a mole running around near our feet on an evening twice, had never seen a live one before. Pond is proving invaluable and is a positive magnet for allsorts
I'm a bit worried as most of the small birds I feed seem to have disappeared. The pigeons and magpies are still around though. Not many butterflies either, perhaps because most of my flowers apart from lavender have stopped flowering. Some bees and lots of blackfly but hardly any ladybirds.
I am filling two bird feeders every day so plenty of small birds, also starlings, pigeons and the 'not so baby' blackbirds who insist on dust bathing in my big pots and then washing the dirt off in the birdbath! Lots of butterflies and even more blackfly - the birds are supposed to pick them off while they are waiting for the feeder but I guess they must be sick of the taste by now.
The odd thing is the birdsong, there is none (or very little) until about 19:30 or later then I hear lots, then it dies down until about 20:30 when the roosting squabbles start. It seems eerily quiet for most of the afternoon.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I did see a stoat on a rural-ish lane the other day, first time ever in the wild. Looked rather bedraggled by the sun so I went back later with water and food, absolutely captivating creatures.
@Mark56 that makes a change. The only stoat I've ever seen ran past my French windows last 'Summer' looking more like a drowned rat! There's no happy medium it seems.
Watched one dragging little bunny three times its size across the garden the other day. Judging by the smell coming from the rabbit hole it went down Im guessing it is livign there. What they do down their sounds like a particularly grim serial killer movie...
"The stoat does not dig its own burrows, instead using the burrows and nest chambers of the rodents it kills. The skins and underfur of rodent prey are used to line the nest chamber."
More than ever!!!! Lancaster Bombers(Wood pigeons)in abundance, lots of collard Doves,Blackbirds chasing their last offspring away. A lot more Starlings than we can stand, its as if we have the full team in our garden. Still getting 5 Hedgehogs at night. All the usual birds, and a newby Woodpecker feeling its way around.All is well in our garden.
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The odd thing is the birdsong, there is none (or very little) until about 19:30 or later then I hear lots, then it dies down until about 20:30 when the roosting squabbles start. It seems eerily quiet for most of the afternoon.
All the usual birds, and a newby Woodpecker feeling its way around.All is well in our garden.