Moulting birds

3 September
The sun is out again today, it's a lovely day and the garden is full of birds. The nuthatch has been back a few times but Mrs Blackbird is looking rather bedraggled at the end of a full moult. Last week a very large family of long-tailed tits flew through as well. However, earlier in the week it was incredibly windy and many of the plants, especially the climbers have been battered and are looking very sorry for themselves.

Busy week, lots of firsts

This past week has had lovely warm spring sunshine which has brought out the first blackthorn flowers and the larches are greening up nicely.
We have also seen the first house martin and the first swift (Sat 24/4).
However, although the days have been lovely and warm we've had some fierce overnight frosts, the protective fleece on gunnera and the seedlings was like cardboard on Monday morning (19/4).