… and most of the glass is gone! Ooops, sorry, wrong Swallow. Our first sighting of our favourite birds. In Hampshire they used to swoop over the watercress beds in magnificent displays; but usually towards the end of the month – 20th plus.
Earlier here, but in the same numbers? We will have to wait and see how many turn up, and which others – Martins, Swifts? Waiting for the Cuckoo – that would be special!
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the…
and the Turkey is already fat! But rather incongruously she is in the garden! Not…
One swallow does make a late Spring. Today, 25th April, bang on target, they have…
It’s ready. It was a deadline to not miss. The cleaners have been in, the…