Rain and Birds

Weather:  Rain, light rain, heavy rain, damp, mild wind, chilly, blue skies, warm

Spotted:   Great tit, magpies, crow, robin, starlings, ducks, seagulls, blackbirds, ladybirds, frogs, insects, butterfly’s, slugs, snails, earthworms, woodworms,  quick moving black spiders, bees,  wasps, black and white cat, aphids, black fly, gardeners.



Pinking blackbirds this week all around the allotment. In fact the birds have been magnificent being busy with each other and catching food and raising young. After such a dry month in  April, May has brought with it the much needed rain. It has cooled everyone down. 



I loved watching the little brown jobbies having dry earth baths in next door's cabbage patch and  swooping in front of me. On a break lying on the hay in the shed watching a beautiful great tit hoping around the hawthorn branches and popping down to check out grub.  I loved watching the magpie dance and hop around all the beds seemingly in a world of his own.  I didn’t realise they took flying insects from the air.  And finally I loved the robin who stopped us in our tracks on our journey home, looked at us, cocked his head as if to say ‘where’s me morsel then?’ 



Work continues on the home made trestle for the passiflora.  I managed to source about 10 12 – 14 foot pieces of willow through the help of an allotment friend.  What I want to do is make a stake at one end and stick four of them in the ground as a frame and then weave thinner branches of wood through so that the passi can work her way up and around all the wood spreading her wonderful purple flowers. 

Willow and bamboo

Wet Socks

Damp Allotment