Category: Animals

A year in the bee garden –January

In January, the squirrels hop across the lawn digging up their buried treasure. It’s a good idea to keep the squirrel house full of monkey nuts unless you want spring bulbs unearthed and bird feeders raided. The magpies like the…

The bee backyard from Could to July

Our neighbor’s buddleia is prospering a lot to the delight of bees, butterflies, hoverflies and wasps, and offering a feast of bugs for the birds. Our personal backyard has overgrown within the heatwave as preparations for a particular arrival (we…