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A Stock Dove on grass. The bird is grey and has some small black markings on its wings

A new garden tick this morning with this young Stock Dove!

Not the biggest fan of shorter days but I love what this time of year brings to the garden, large Blue, Great, LTT, Coal Tit flocks, Chiffchaff, WW, Goldcrest, Greenfinch, 25+Goldfinch, just non stop birds, there's even a Grey Wagtail hanging around, it's a joy to watch

Yes it's a lot different to the where I used to walk even though it's pretty much the same town! I just wonder how much the construction will affect the birds in the coming months!

A young Goldfinch sat on the feeder when I opened the curtains

A grassy patch, with trees to the left a metal fence to the right and in the distance construction vehicles

2/2 Of course I'm plagued by construction & the ponds where the Swans & ducks were have been drained & a new distribution centre is being built, at least they waited until the Lapwings had finished breeding I suppose. 😬

It's been over a year now since I started the new walk to work, I've seen 55 species of birds, several butterflies, a couple of dragonflies, lots of bugs & plants. The Kestrels I see have 2 young again this year & currently there are Cinnabar moth caterpillars all over. 1/2

A Large Skipper butterfly sat on a green leaf. The butterfly is mostly brown with orange patches on its wings

A Red ladybird with black spots on the edge of a folded green leaf

Bees and butterflies galore in the garden over the weekend including this Large Skipper also a big increase in Ladybirds too

I've been staying in Northumberland again this weekend, I think I want to move here. The birds that I see/hear just sat in the garden first thing in the morning are fantastic

Been there done that!

It's just so unnecessary, absolutely no point to doing it 🤷🏻‍♀️🙁

A patch of grass filled with buttercups, Bugle, daisies and other flowers

The same patch cut down to the ground, it's now just patchy brown grass

From flowers and bees last week to half dead nothing this week 😬🤬😕

A Red Hot Poker with lavender in the background

A pink and white Lupin against a wall

A purple Allium against a fence

A Squirrel on an uncut lawn surrounded by shrubs and flowers, a bird bath is to the left and a fence surrounds part of the garden to the back and right

Garden is gardening right now 😍

A black and orange bowl with white ghost cats filled with bombay mix and marmite rice cakes

Tonight's snacks - marmite rice cakes (obsessed) & bombay mix (thanks grandad for introducing me to the that in the 80's!). Chased down by a mug of tea. Absolutely living tonight

Four Hedgehogs in the garden tonight, that's not happened for a while!

I love to see them, we have two regulars at the moment

A plastic water dish on a stone flag. A hedgehog is resting its front legs on the side with its snout just above the water

A Hedgehog in the garden just now

Yes it's very annoying, it's slowly coming back and I can smell the odd thing here and there!

A Hooded Crow in a field. The crow has a black head and wings and a grey body

A Hooded Crow in a field with three sheep against a wall behind it.

Surprised to see a Hooded Crow near Barden Bridge at Bolton Abbey this morning

Good luck Lincolnshire, we had her for too long, your turn now!

Lots of parsley plants in front of lots of trees, blue sky behind them

The woods are full of Bluebells, Parsley and wild garlic at the moment. Can't smell any of it thanks to a nasty flu (covid) thing that's left me without a sense of smell 😬

Early Swifts, three of them over the house just now 👏👏

First patch Swallow this morning, flying overhead with a House Martin

A couple of new singing birds so far on the way to work this week, Blackcap and Willow Warbler. At least half a dozen Chiffchaffs too, lots of Dunnocks, Robins, Wrens and Blackbirds, in fact just lots of lovely birdsong in general!

Sparrows seem to be ok here, we usually get quite a few young too so we'll see!

The numbers in my garden are way down this year and they are not nesting in the usual places so far😕

New green leaves on a large tree against a blue sky

Blossom and leaves on a tree by the side of a road, vans are in the distance. The sky behind is blue with a few white clouds

A tree with bare branches, a telegraph pole stands at the side, blue sky behind.

Pink cherry blossom and copper orange leaves against a green wire fence

Trees on the walk to work this week

A drone hover fly on a green leaf

A Hoverfly sat on a rose leaf

A couple of Hoverflies in the garden today

I'm sure they didn't! People just don't think!

Fingers crossed. There have been so many trees cut down around town over the past month or so 😕

I reported it to 101 & they've sent it on to the wildlife and rural crime division, I don't know if anything will come of it.