Nature Notes
May. 31st, 2025 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo There's a plant called ragged robin. It has red stems and pretty little pink flowers and would be an acceptable garden flower if it weren't bent on world domination. I'm more tolerant of it than most gardeners would be- but then I'm not a proper gardener....
My idea of gardening is to put things in the ground and let them get on with it. The bushier the better. I exert a gentle guiding hand. Yesterday I mowed the grass, but left certain areas wild so the grasses can grow to their full height and seed. The birds have planted what I'm fairly sure is barley in the neighbourhood of the feeders. Such fun!
The pond empties itself as fast as I can fill it. It shouldn't have sprung a leak but I'm wondering if it has. I can't believe that evaporation is entirely to blame. We planted water liles but it doesn't seem to have taken. All that has taken is green scum. The cat drinks from it, as does the gull, so it's not entirely a waste of space. I had dreamed of frogs and therefore tadpoles. Dream on.....
As the garden gets bushier so I'm hoping it will attract some of the smaller birds. At present the only smaller birds we see are sparrows. What other kinds of birds do we see?
Gulls
Pigeons
Jackdaws
The very occasional blackbird
The even more occasional crow.
We do well for bumble bees. This morning a tortoiseshell butterfly alighted briefly on the patio close to my hand. We do very well for ants and woodlice.
A fox visits regularly. We're on a route that she patrols. She comes in over the fence at the bottom of the garden, trots up the path towards the house and exits over the fence into the garden next door.
My idea of gardening is to put things in the ground and let them get on with it. The bushier the better. I exert a gentle guiding hand. Yesterday I mowed the grass, but left certain areas wild so the grasses can grow to their full height and seed. The birds have planted what I'm fairly sure is barley in the neighbourhood of the feeders. Such fun!
The pond empties itself as fast as I can fill it. It shouldn't have sprung a leak but I'm wondering if it has. I can't believe that evaporation is entirely to blame. We planted water liles but it doesn't seem to have taken. All that has taken is green scum. The cat drinks from it, as does the gull, so it's not entirely a waste of space. I had dreamed of frogs and therefore tadpoles. Dream on.....
As the garden gets bushier so I'm hoping it will attract some of the smaller birds. At present the only smaller birds we see are sparrows. What other kinds of birds do we see?
Gulls
Pigeons
Jackdaws
The very occasional blackbird
The even more occasional crow.
We do well for bumble bees. This morning a tortoiseshell butterfly alighted briefly on the patio close to my hand. We do very well for ants and woodlice.
A fox visits regularly. We're on a route that she patrols. She comes in over the fence at the bottom of the garden, trots up the path towards the house and exits over the fence into the garden next door.
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Date: 2025-05-31 11:02 am (UTC)We also see a lot of magpies and wood pigeons but no gulls except the odd black headed who tend to be more inclined to being inland where the plough brings up goodies.
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