Hedgehog photos

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Catfood, Environment, Evening, Feeding, Food, Garden, Hedgehog, Life, Mammal, Nature, Night, PhotosLeave a comment

The hedgehogs are about tonight eating catfood again. I quietly opened the back door and saw one of them eating the catfood I’d left out for the abandoned cat. When it realised I was there it slowly scuttled off up the yard. When I looked again later all the cat food had gone. When the abandoned cat arrived I gave him a couple of pouches of wet cat food to make up for him missing supper.

I love out hedgehogs, I’m hoping they will weigh enough to survive winter. I think they are living in the back of the shed. My hubby says he hears snuffling in there late at night.

Some of this years pears

Posted on September 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fruit, Gardening, Growth, Life, Nature, Pear tree, Pears, Sweet, Tasty, Twenty years, WoolworthsLeave a comment

We bought the pear tree as a small sapling from Woolworths about twenty years ago. It’s grown since then and every year it has had a bigger crop of pears on it. This year there must have been fifty. The tree has tipped over because of their weight and possibly the wind, so we’ve had to prop it up. The bark is cracked and coming off in places, and it suffers from black spot, but the pears are delicious. Some of them rotted on the tree, possibly from being pecked by birds. We’ve got most of them off the tree now and are sharing some with friends.

Bee photo?

Posted on September 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bee?, Bees, Environment, Flowers, Hover fly?, Life, Nature, Photo, Plants, Pollinate, Save the planet, World5 Comments

I don’t know what species it is, I can’t get very good closeups with my phone but I think it’s a Bee, however it could be a hover fly? The back end of it doesn’t look fuzzy enough. But it has yellow and black bands on it. So does anyone know?

Whether bee or fly, at least its something that pollinates plants, and that’s what we need to protect in the world. Imagine a world without pollinating insects? There would be a lot less fruit and vegetables unless we were to hand pollinate or create machines that could do it. But we don’t need that. We need to protect what we already have! Banning pesticides that kill bees, like nicotioides. Farming responsibly and safely. Its a difficult balance. But we must make it happen.

At last, a courgette!

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Courgette, Feed, Flower, Food, Gardening, Life, Nature, Plant, Tiny tomatoes2 Comments

My vegetables didn’t do well this year. It sort of fizzled out in August and nothing grew much apart from the pears. But I spotted this growing last week. The weather is due to get cold in the next day or so but I hope if I give it a lot of water and some feed it might grow a bit more before the frost gets the plant. There are more flowers on it.. I also found a few baby tomatoes in a hanging basket. Green, but maybe they will survive for a while.

Two old codgers

Posted on September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotment, apples, Clearing ground, Codgers, Gardening, Life, Nature, Plants, Poppies, Tired but happy, Weeds4 Comments

Hubby and I, helping in the local allotment. We are helping a community project clear a couple of old allotments of weeds so they can be used for growing produce. It is slow going to get rid of so many weeds. We are trying to take out the cooch grass and convolvulus (bind weed). However we are leaving some flowers like poppies in situ. I wasn’t feeling well today so I only managed a bit of work. Its going to take a while to get on top of it. Hopefully by next spring it will be planted up and ready for a good summer of growth. One thing that is already there are apple trees with masses of apples on them. We were allowed to take a few home with us.

Dragonfly

Posted on September 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Adjustments, Dragonfly, Environment, Insect, Life, Nature, Random, Spirit animalLeave a comment

My friend found this in her house today. She said it was like her spirit animal. I loved the idea. She let it fly free. I wish I had seen it. I’ve had to adjust the exposure and colour to try and make it visible because it was a very dark image originally. The structure of a dragonfly is amazing. It looks like the bones of a spine with a skull and wings.

In hedgehog news….

Posted on September 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fun, Garden, Growing, Hedgehogs, Life, Nature, News, Nighttime, Visitors, Wildlife4 Comments

We have been seeing our hedgehogs for about a month and a half now. They either feed by the back door or in our shed late at night. My hubby goes out most nights to look for them and they will be on the aths round the garden eating worms they have grubbed up or in the shed. We’ve got sand on the shed floor so we’ve seen their paw prints. They were using it as a latrine but that seems to have stopped. When they eat and drink they often knock the bowls over. We put out hedgehog food but they much prefer the dry and wet cat food that the stray/abandoned cat has. (we are still trying to get him in the house). There was one big and one small hedgehog, but after over a month of nightly visits they are both big now! It’s great to have wildlife in the garden.

Back yard work

Posted on September 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Back yard, Colour, Floral, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Microclimate, Nature, Plants, Summer, SunnyLeave a comment

Today we had the task of replacing the plants, hanging baskets and pots in the back yard that we had taken down to have a new fence put in. The next door neighbour had allowed us in to get at his side of the wall so we’ve helped him by clearing back the brambles and Ivy and cleared his path so he can get to the back gate.

Now the pots are back I can see which ones have suffered from drought and the cold. They were all crammed together in our garden (on the other side of the house) but it was cold last night so some things have wilted. We have a real microclimate in the yard and it’s always a bit warmer there. Hopefully they will bounce back in the coming days.

Removing Russian vine

Posted on September 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cutting back, Exercise, Gardening, Life, Nature, Russian vine, Tidying, TiredLeave a comment

Our telephone cable and the neighbours has been tangled up in the Russian vine. They came round yesterday and asked us to remove it as it was affecting their phone line. Luckily we had booked a builder to do some work, so he very kindly got up on the neighbours garage roof to cut it back. Now the question is where to ut the stuff! Three huge loads went into our councils brown bin to be collected next Tuesday. We will have to fill it a few more times before we get rid of it all. What I was worried about was the number of wasps around the vine because its in flower. Off out again in a minute to help clear the mess!

Can I see an elephant?

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Cloud, Elephant, Environment, Extinction, Imagination, Life, Looks like, Nature, Plants2 Comments

Strange towering cloud seen on our walk. Looks like someone walking with their hands being them and with an Elephants head, trunk raised.

Will our children and our children’s children even recognise Elephants, or Lions and Tigers and all the other animals (and plants) that are becoming extinct? When the last Elephant in the wild has its tusks hacked off by trophy hunters or illegal poachers, will someone notice or care?

Man sets himself up as the most important animal. But that means we should care for what lives on Earth. Not destroy it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Nature