My poor garden went through a traumatic change last summer, the council in their wisdom decided to rip out my hedges and replace with this lovely fencing😒,right in the middle of the nesting season even though they were told in good time there were nests in the hedge. So now is the time to start documenting it's recovery.
This afternoon was the first time this year I have been able to spend any time out there and I lit the chimnea which to be honest I hadn't had the nerve to light before the hedges had been removed in case they caught fire, and spent the time burning a bag of trash pruned a year or so ago.
The birds have lost most of their nesting places, but a few enterprising sparrows built new nests in the dead ivy on the house walls, 2 at the front and 2 at the back. It will be interesting to see how many baby birds I have in the garden this year. I have been feeding to keep them visiting me and was delighted to see a spotted woodpecker briefly visit the peanuts in the front garden. I have also had a sparrowhawk visit a few times last summer, he even ventured into my kitchen on one occasion and I had to open the window he was frantically trying to go through.
Just some of the avian visitors over the last few days.
The whole list of visiting birds:
- Sparrow
- Robin
- Blackbird
- Starling
- Blue tit
- Great tit
- Chaffinch
- Dunnock
- Wren
- Collard Dove
- Goldfinch
- Jackdaw
- Goldcrest (seen once)
- Spotted Woodpecker (seen once)
- Sparrowhawk (seen 4 times)
