We moved house in June, and a major change has been the decision to focus on providing natural food for birds rather than putting out seeds and fat balls. The front garden already has a firethorn (pyracantha), popular with sparrows. Before the weather became too hot and dry, we added a few plants, including lungwortContinue reading “Getting familiar with my new patch, part 1”
Category Archives: Swifts
Scaffolding as a call to action
On a Sunday morning at the end of July, I arrived home to see scaffolding going up on a house down the road. This is a house where I’d seen swifts nesting, so I was really concerned. I had to wait half an hour for the scaffolders to finish, which gave me time to thinkContinue reading “Scaffolding as a call to action”
Dandelion Nature 