Hi Nic
So glad hoglet is busy, can never understand the business of a hog coming out that you don’t see going in but guess the cameras aren’t that quick to go off, find the same with cats & they’re a lot bigger. Cino Cat (Nala’s sibling) took all the hog food last week & left the dish out in the rain so I’d notice it was empty! No sign of hogs yet.
The blackbird is always first on the food here every morning, still another male coming too & they’re not squabbling over the garden or the female who also visits every day.
Your thoughts on BirdWatch could well be right, extra people feeding so our regulars go elsewhere, makes no sense otherwise.
Talking of bees, I did a litter pick in a local park a week or 2 ago & the trees were covered in blossom & the air full of bees, you heard them before seeing them. It was during the very warm spell & bumbles were everywhere in my garden too. haven’t seen them in this colder spell but quite a few different flowers out the back for them to feed on when they reappear.
Read recently that people using fly paper have been finding bats dead on it, how sad & who on earth would use fly paper in 2019? Don’t have a fly problem but would never use it anyway, chase them out & put a fly screen up instead is better. Fly spray was suggested as an alternative but is a no-no too, poison has no place in my home & in any case it would also kill any spiders living here.
I’d love to have seen the birds taking horse hair, their nests would have been really strong & waterproof too.
Building set to start on 1 April, hoping to get things normal again as fast as possible.
