Tuesday 6 June 2017

30 Days Wild Day 6

On the ball with this one today. I was a little bit inspired though.....you'll see why.

The weather is still horrible at the moment lots of rain and some very strong winds. It felled a tree just near work, there was a couple of weeks ago an occupied nest in it (Collared Dove), luckily the birds were long gone.


It's also snapped one of the branches on the Buddleia outside our front window, I think it's the main one the birds like to sit on before they fly onto the window feeder. I can't tell yet they're so intertwined and it's too windy to check properly.

A pair of Goldfinch were clinging to the feeder as it swayed, they were persistent though and hung on a while! Our large Foxglove and Columbine plants where quite windswept too.



It finally stopped raining so I went out and took some photos of the pond, we've got to finish off the planting and create a few hiding places - hopefully to encourage frogs and toads. The plants we put in the pond are all doing great.


I was just about to get in the bath when my husband shouted there was a baby Fox in the garden, I moved fast and ran for the camera. It's been a while since we've had one in daylight in the actual garden! I didn't need to run though it stayed around for half an hour polishing off all the mealworms we'd put out for the Hedgehogs and finding every single bit of food around the feeder! It wasn't quite a baby but definitely a youngster, maybe one of last years cubs? We watched it till it left, it wasn't too happy with the wind blowing the trees and every now and then it would jump and eye up the Flowering Currant by the fence. Such a lovely moment.










6 comments:

  1. It has been a wet and windy day, pond looking good, will sort some photos, showing how much mine has changed over the past three years.
    How wonderful to watch the young fox, in the light too. Lovely photos.
    Amanda x

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    1. It was, at least the wet part disappeared today. That would be nice :) I really did love seeing the fox, i'm hoping it becomes a regular visitor! x

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  2. Glad you didn't get any major damage, your foxgloves look great hope the straightened up, one of my very favorite flowers...AND wow a cute fox right in the yard how cool!! He is a cutie.

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    1. No luckily there wasn't any but the Foxgloves are now permanently bent over! The bees aren't too bothered though. The fox was back again last night, so lovely.

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  3. How lovely to see the young fox - hope he becomes regular! Haven't seen one round here for years - in fact, the last sighing was of one stood on the rabbit's hutch! Rabbit survived the ordeal.

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    1. He's been back every night so far, just after dusk :) We had the same thing years ago, we thought it had got the rabbit out but it hopped back into the garden the next day!

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