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The Wildlife Garden in October
Cornus Autumn Colours The beginning of October was typically cool and damp at the beginning of the week – quite unlike other Octobers here in South Shropshire which are sometimes warm and sunny! One of the local red kites flew … Continue reading
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The Wildlife Garden in September
The first week of September started with warm sunshine and there were still lots of large dragonflies around the wildlife pond. The garden birds however, were now quieter now apart from the house martins which were feeding young in the … Continue reading
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The Wildlife Garden in July
Spotted Flycatcher with Small White Butterfly July is always a lovely month in my wildlife garden and this year was no different with spotted flycatchers nesting here this summer. I was able to watch these wonderful, charismatic little birds around … Continue reading
The Wildlife Garden in April
After a very cold and miserable March, April began with an improvement in the weather in South Shropshire providing a few quite sunny afternoons. There were still plenty of finches using the bird feeders – goldfinches, greenfinches, siskins and a … Continue reading
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The Wildlife Garden in September
As usual the weather dominates my thoughts as I think about September, and it was a month of two halves in that respect. The first half was spent in wet and windy Shropshire and the second half – my usual … Continue reading
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The Wildlife Garden in August
As the summer progressed here in South Shropshire there was sadly little change in the miserable weather. We were blessed with the very occasional warm and sunny day, but between these wonderful little windows of summer, cold, wet and even … Continue reading
The Wildlife Garden in July
While some areas of the country, especially the south and east, were basking in high temperatures in July, the west was having rather a different set of weather conditions. There were hot sunny days but these were interspersed with windy, … Continue reading
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Dinchope Diary - Life in a Wildlife Garden 