Things I have seen already this year…

Hi all

 Sorry its been such a long time, I am now in a prt time job so have four days a week to spot wildlife.  I thought I would start off with the things I have seen this year:

1) A baby blackbird this morning on the cycle track (the one in Bristol where they want to knock all the trees down and turn it into a bus road - more about that later!)

2) A plump green catapillar eating its way through my clementis.

3) Frogs (but no frog spawn) - one in the road which I had to carry home before he got squashed.  Two in my ‘puddle’ in the polytunnel, five in my wildlife pond and 3 in my other pond.

4) Jays in my garden eating monkeynuts - quite rare for the suburbs I thought!

5) A blackbird in my garden that acts like a robin, eating the worms you throw him.

6) A squirrel in my garden on Christmas day!  There’s a first for everything!

 7) Tortoiseshell butterflies - the chickens ran after them but luckily no one got them.

 8) Two new chickens, Mrs Badger and Margaret bring the total up to seven.  (Mrs Badger has learnt to use the cat flap so she comes in the kitchen and lays her egg in the indoor guinea pig house (much to Gary’s amusement!).