Tuesday 22 June 2010

June 5th

Back home Goldfinch in garden on feeder. The hedgehog is still visiting (is it me or is she thinner?)
6th Fledgling starlings in the garden while the blue tits and great tits are working hard collecting food for their young. Damselfly butterfly and ladybird briefly in the garden.
8th |First fledgling blue tit in garden -beautiful .
10th The young starling thinks the bird table belongs to him. That is until the adults arrive. The hedgehog is feeding around 10pm and comes right down the steps to the door , scaring a frog on the way.
18th Lot's of noisy sparrow fledglings being fed in next doors trees.
21st Longest day - very sunny. Saw the mouse on the bird feeder.
22nd Spent an amazing 10mins in the evening with a bat flying over head, the hedgehog near my feet and the mouse at the feeder.
The met office have said it has been the driest first 6 months of the year for 80 years!