Garden All the garden birds seem to feel that Spring is springing with the Dunnocks in particular spending a lot of time singing and gadding about. On the 9th, 13th, 14th and 15th we had a male and a female Bullfinch on the ground under the feeder which is a real rarity for us though…
Summary February 2012 We were on holiday in Lanzarote for the week between 2nd and 9th of February. We weren’t really doing any serious bird watching but we kept our eyes open and we did see a few species including Pallid Swift, Kestrel, Kentish Plover, Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Collared Dove, Swallow, Spanish Sparrow and…
Summary January 2012 Garden The new year started with very mild weather with some wet days and some quite windy days. The Tits seem to be finding lots of insects already and some days you can see a mist of hovering gnats over the lawn in the back garden. Goldfinch numbers on the feeders peaking…
Summary December 2011 Garden December saw the weather turn a little colder and much wetter after a very mild November. With the rain and cold came the birds and our garden has started to look more familiar. Each day there are at least a couple of dozen Goldfinches at a time on the feeders; two…
Summary November 2011 November saw a range of weather from the very mild and sunny to the misty, cold and autumnal. The month started mild and then by the end of the first week there was a little rain and a considerable amount of mist, overcast skies and, of course, the evenings are dark with…
Summary of August 2011 Weather The month started started with very mixed weather, some days being very wet, others quite hot and humid. By the end of the first week it was raining every day and stayed that way for the second week of August. By the third week it was a little better but…
Summary of July 2011 Weather Very hot at the start of the month getting wetter towards the end of the first week. By the middle of the month it had gotten very wet. We were away between the 14th – 18th and on return we got the impression that there had been heavy rain throughout…
Weather The weather this month has continued to be a bit up and down with the odd fall of hail stones and some heavy downpours but most days fairly dry if – almost always – a bit windy. Towards the middle of the month we got some more heavy rain and this continued intermittently until…
Garden and General The month started with a warm and dry but very windy spell. By the middle of the month some rain had set in and the weather was generally changeable with some heavy downpours at times. We hope we are winning the war with the neighbouring cat but now we cannot put any…
April has been remarkably dry and warm. The Met Office described it this way – “With high pressure influencing the weather for most of the month, it was much warmer, drier and sunnier than normal. The mean temperature was 4.0 °C above the 1971–2000 average and it was the warmest April in the series from…
