I hope you have read my Shopping blog which I put in yesterday but which somehow went in under 1 April!
Well, swallows and martins are now arriving. We saw our first house martin on Sunday 6 April, the earliest I have ever seen any. The following week a group of about 15 hitched a lift aboard a fishing boat and travelled the remaining 40 miles into Newlyn Harbour where they promptly fed on insects flying in the glow from the street lamps as it was after dark. It is enough to bring tears to your eyes and isn't it like it? - no one had a camera to record the event.
We put up a nest box opposite our kitchen window and about 4 feet away from the window upstairs. RT said I should have put up a whole terrace as there have been so many comings and goings. A pair of blue tits have taken up residence and today a pair of house sparrows with beaks full of feathers looked hopefully into the hole. I hope you like the photograph of a blue tit emerging after taking in food.
I am advertising for toad spawn as we have a new pond which I hope will soon be full of wild life. We had a couple of toads in our garden last year but I have not seen them yet this year. I don't know where they came from as we live in the country with few neighbours and no other garden ponds that I know of. We do have a stream at the bottom of the garden but it is fast running and little lives in it although we do have plenty of dragonflies later in the summer. I hope they will be attracted to our pond.
Last sunday we had a brimstone butterfly in the garden. It apparently lives on buckthorn and a kindly neighbour gave me a cutting. I look forward to seeing more.
2 comments:
Hello,
This is my first visit to your blog.
I shall return.
Over here in the US we often see various bushes advertised as "butterfly bushes" because they help attract the lovely winged creatures: it seems that one of the commonest such bushes is the buddliea, which I know grew well in berkshire: I suspect it might thrive in Cornwall too!
N.
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